Deputy Speaker and Davao City 1st District Representative Paolo “Pulong” Duterte has offered a P1-million reward to anyone who can provide information leading to the arrest of the suspects involved in the rape and killing of a female architect in the city.
Twenty-eight-year-old architect-engineer Vlanche Marie Bragas was found dead on Wednesday, May 17, in a banana plantation in Calinan.
A labor union and community organizer in Davao died of a stroke in which his family blames army personnel who had interrogated and coerced him two days prior that triggered his stroke.
While authorities hailed the arrest of Casilao and labeled him as a "communist terrorist," his lawyers and family decry this tagging.
Lawyers criticized the Surigao del Sur police for its surveillance of a public attorney giving legal aid to suspected rebels in court.