QC court acquits human rights defenders of perjury charges
QC court acquits human rights defenders of perjury charges
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL and JONAS ALPASAN
Bulatlat.com
MANILA — A Quezon City court has acquitted the 10 human rights defenders who were charged with perjury case.
In a decision January 9, Judge Aimee Marie B. Alcera Municipal Trial Court Branch 139 said that the prosecution failed to “establish beyond reasonable doubt that all accused made a willful and deliberate assertion of a falsehood.”
“Truth and justice prevailed today against liars and butcher such as former National Security Adviser Hermogenes Esperon and National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict,” said Cristina Palabay, secretary general of Karapatan, on Monday, Jan. 9.
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