BY BULATLAT November 29, 2007 – 5:44 p.m. Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV, Brig. Gen. Danny Lim announced in a press conference with former vice president Teofisto Guingona, their lawyers and supporters that they decided to leave Manila Peninsula peacefully. Earlier tear gas cannisters were lobbed in the lobby of the hotel, intermittent gunfire was heard,…

BY BULATLAT November 29, 2007 – 4:29 p.m. As police Special Weapons and Tactics Group (SWAT) surround the Manila Peninsula Hotel, snipers from surrounding buildings fire warning shots and Marines with armed personnel carriers start moving in. (Bulatlat.com)

BY BULATLAT November 29, 2007 – 4:10 p.m. Troops with tanks and armed personnel carriers and police officers have been massing up around the Manila Peninsula where Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV and Brig. Gen. Danilo Lim have been holding out after walking out of the hearing for charges of coup d etat at the Makati…

BY BULATLAT November 29, 2007 – 4:10 p.m. Troops with tanks and armed personnel carriers and police officers have been massing up around the Manila Peninsula where Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV and Brig. Gen. Danilo Lim have been holding out after walking out of the hearing for charges of coup d etat at the Makati…

BY BULATLAT November 29, 2007 – 4:29 p.m. As police Special Weapons and Tactics Group (SWAT) surround the Manila Peninsula Hotel, snipers from surrounding buildings fire warning shots and Marines with armed personnel carriers start moving in.(Bulatlat.com)

BY BULATLAT November 29, 2007 – 5:44 p.m. Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV, Brig. Gen. Danny Lim announced in a press conference with former vice president Teofisto Guingona, their lawyers and supporters that they decided to leave Manila Peninsula peacefully. Earlier tear gas cannisters were lobbed in the lobby of the hotel, intermittent gunfire was heard,…

BY BULATLAT November 29, 2007 – 7:04 p.m. Totally disregarding human rights, police forces arrested former vice president Teofisto Guingona, Bp. Julio Labayen, Fr. Robert Reyes, former UP president Dodong Nemenzo and media people covering the stand-off at Manila Peninsula in Makati. Media people were caught by surprise after they were handcuffed and taken to…

BY BULATLAT November 29, 2007 – 9:14 p.m. Local Government Secretary Ronaldo Puno announced that a curfew has been imposed from 12 midnight to 5:00 a.m. tonight in the National Capital Region as well as Central Luzon and Southern Tagalog. The last time curfew was imposed was when former president Ferdinand Marcos declared Martial Law…

BY AUBREY MAKILAN Bulatlat November 27, 2007 – 9:05 p.m. Tears flowed with the rain as almost everyone at the picket in front of the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) cried, and some even wailed after learning from news reports that the Kuwaiti Court of Cassation upheld the decision to impose the death penalty on…

By Dabet Castañeda HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH BULATLAT VOL. VII, No. 42, November 25- December 1, 2007 One year and five months after their abduction, a witness testified that he had actually seen and talked to Sherlyn Cadapan and Karen Empeño, the two scholars of the University of the Philippines (UP) who were abducted allegedly by…

BY AUBREY MAKILAN Bulatlat November 26, 2007 – 5:27 p.m. “Bantay Hatol” was formally launched on November 26, a day before the promulgation of the decision of the Kuwaiti Supreme Court on the case of Marilou Ranario, an overseas Filipino worker (OFW) in Kuwait who was sentenced to death in 2005 for killing her female…