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14 Oct, 17 tweets, 5 min read
Justice and the courts in the Philippines (a thread)
The court can allow you to go and visit a dentist.
The court can allow a detainee to spend Christmas at home.
The court can even allow a detainee to spend Christmas and New Year at home.
The court can allow a detainee to attend a son’s graduation
A court can also allow a detainee to visit his mother once, twice and thrice.
The court could allow a detainee to attend a birthday party.
The court could allow a detainee, a principal accused in a massacre, to attend his daughter’s wedding “on humanitarian grounds”.
The court can allow a detainee to visit his ailing father in the hospital not once, not twice, not thrice. Four times.
The court can also let a detainee visit his son in the hospital.
The court can also find ways for you to be free.
A president can also pardon a convict even without applying for it.
A court can separate a mother and her baby daughter

mb.com.ph/2020/08/13/pol…
The court can ignore the same mother’s plea to visit her daughter in the ICU

rappler.com/nation/reina-m…
The court could change its mind: shorten a furlough from 3 days to 6 hours.

rappler.com/nation/reina-m…
The court could believe law enforcers claims they have “no personnel” to guard the mother in her short furlough.

But 47 escorts turn out to guard the mother in her three-hour visit. No offer of privacy whatsoever.
Justice for Baby River and her mother Ina Nasino!

Free all political prisoners!

Justice for all!

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13 Oct
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Scion of a new, pro-Duterte dynasty

manilastandard.net/opinion/column…
Velasco's wife is mayor of Torrijos, Marinduque

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For once, they're fighting each other, and not fighting the Filipino people.
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For all his drama and deceptions, parang gusto kong mahambalos nang malakas si Cayetano.
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REPORT: PNP seeks removal of Kalinga monument honoring Igorot heroes who fought the dictatorship
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Who was #RandallEchanis? Why did they kill him?

A thread based from lawyer Jobert Pahilga’s post on Facebook.
Randall “Ka Randy” Echanis came from a lower-middle class family.

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