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abtest

Court of Appeals acquits child rights advocate Sally Ujano of rebellion raps

By Ian Laqui | March 27, 2026 - 11:14am

Ujano was officially released from the Correctional Institute for Women in Mandaluyong on March 26. 

Headlines

102 trafficking victims acquitted over BIR stamp case in Pangasinan

By Ian Laqui | June 30, 2025 - 3:27pm

A regional trial court in Pangasinan has acquitted over 100 individuals charged with illegal possession of cigarette manufacturing...

Headlines

EDITORIAL — Was the justice system weaponized?

June 26, 2024 - 12:00am

After more than six years behind bars, former senator Leila de Lima has finally been acquitted of the third and last drug...

Freeman Opinion

'Piston 6' acquitted by Caloocan court

By Ian Laqui | April 20, 2024 - 11:10am

The Caloocan MTC, through Judge Marlo Bermejo Campanilla, granted the demurrer to evidence filed by the “Piston 6,”...

Headlines

Palparan acquitted on kidnapping, illegal detention charges

By Ian Laqui | October 6, 2023 - 4:24pm

Retired Maj. Gen. Jovito Palparan has been acquitted by the Malolos Regional Trial Court Branch 19 on charges of kidnapping,...

Headlines

Italy to run F-35 fighter jet service center

December 12, 2014 - 5:22am

Italy's defense minister and the U.S. ambassador to Italy have announced that an Italian site run by defense contractor Finmeccanica...

World

Oscar Pistorius sentenced to 5 years in prison

By Christopher Torchia and Gerald Imray | October 21, 2014 - 4:57pm

Oscar Pistorius has been sentenced to five years in prison for killing girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.

Sports

Woman cleared of estafa, but told to pay P1.6 M

By Janvic Mateo | July 18, 2014 - 12:00am

A woman claiming to be a diamond trader was ordered to pay over P1.6 million even as a Quezon City court acquitted her of the estafa charge filed against her by a businessman.

Metro

Court finds band member innocent

By Mylen P. Manto | February 26, 2013 - 12:00am

For the failure of the prosecution to prove his guilt beyond reasonable doubt, Judge Gilbert Moises of Regional Trial Court Branch 18 acquitted a member of a band from charges of estafa through falsification of public...

Freeman Metro Cebu

CA clears former Erap consultant of smuggling raps

By Roel Pareño | January 11, 2013 - 12:00am

The Court of Appeals (CA) has reversed a lower court ruling and acquitted a former consultant of then President Joseph Estrada, Wee Dee Ping, of smuggling and importation of toxic waste.

Nation