Home lawmakers on Thursday referred to as on the Division of International Affairs (DFA) to collaborate with Dutch authorities to dam former presidential spokesperson Harry Roque’s asylum request and power him to return residence to face allegations linking him to unlawful Philippine offshore gaming operators (Pogo).
The Makabayan bloc, composed of ACT Lecturers Rep. France Castro, Gabriela Rep. Arlene Brosas, and Kabataan Rep. Raoul Manuel, condemned Roque’s “shameless try to flee accountability” by in search of asylum within the Netherlands, noting that he had no function in former President Rodrigo Duterte’s trial on the Worldwide Felony Court docket (ICC).
A Timorese courtroom has rejected the Philippine authorities’s bid to extradite expelled lawmaker Arnolfo Teves Jr.—a ruling that the Division of Justice (DOJ) on Thursday described as “peculiar and legally inconceivable.”
In a March 20 resolution written in Portuguese by Timor-Leste’s Court docket of Appeals, an English translation of which was supplied by Teves’ lawyer Ferdinand Topacio, the plenary of judges “unanimously determined” to grant Teves’ attraction and “refuse the request for [his] extradition.”
President Ferdinand “Bongbong” R. Marcos Jr. has declared Tuesday, April 1, an everyday vacation nationwide in observance of Eid’l-Fitr.
This was confirmed by Government Secretary Lucas Bersamin to reporters on Thursday.
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