Libel and the campaign against red-tagging
YESTERDAY broadcast journalist Atom Araullo filed a complaint for damages against show hosts Lorraine Badoy and Jeffrey Celiz of Sonshine Media Network International (SMNI)...
Two-witness rule in search warrants
PASSI chief of police Lt. Col. Aron Palomo has been relieved following allegations of planting of evidence in a search warrant raid that allegedly...
Internet justice
SOMETIMES it is a case of the police shooting themselves in the foot.
Instead of sending the message that they are doing their jobs, the...
Political rice
THE SAMAHANG Industriya ng Agrikultura (SINAG) is calling for the abolition of the National Food Authority (NFA).
Reacting to reports that the NFA prefers to...
Relief for government employees
IN A DECISION rendered in April but published only last week, the Supreme Court overturned some of its own previous rulings regarding statements of...
Water attack
OVER the weekend the Armed Forces of the Philippines announced that the China Coast Guard had fired water cannons at a supply boat of...
What is double jeopardy?
ON MAY 12 this year the regional trial court of Muntinlupa acquitted former senator Leila de Lima of the second of three nonbailable drug...
Ignoring the ICC
PRESIDENT Bongbong Marcos has declared that the Philippines will no longer be corresponding with the International Criminal Court (ICC).
This was after the appeals chamber...
Are we free to say what we think?
TOWARDS the end of 2017, when the government was waging its notorious war against illegal drugs, an online community called “Silent No More PH”...
Protection for women and children
REPUBLIC Act 9262 is a law passed in 2004 to combat violence against women and their children (VAWC).
“Violence” does not refer solely to the...