Philippines: BALLOT BOXES CONTAINING DISPUTED VOTES RETRIEVED FOR KOKO PIMENTEL?S ELECTORAL PROTEST

BALLOT BOXES CONTAINING DISPUTED VOTES RETRIEVED FOR KOKO PIMENTEL?S ELECTORAL PROTEST

All the ballot boxes needed for the electoral protest
of lawyer Aquilino ?Koko? Pimentel III against Sen.
Juan Miguel Zubiri have already been retrieved.
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Arrest of Journalists Covering Peninsula Standoff: An Unprecedented Outrage

Statement of the Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility on the Arrest of Members of the Media Covering the Peninsula Hotel Incident

Never in the turbulent recent history of the Philippines has any government, including that of Ferdinand Marcos, ever taken into custody members of the media who were on the scene to do their jobs.

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