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                    [Title] => PNP still monitors players in foiled 2006 coup
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A year after, some of the people involved in the attempt to  overthrow the government are still being monitored by the  Philippine National Police (PNP).


According to Senior Superintendent Asher Dolina, chief of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group-National Capital Region (CIDG-NCR), they are still monitoring the movements of the other players involved in the foiled Feb. 24 coup attempt last year.
[DatePublished] => 2007-02-24 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1165072 [AuthorName] => Bebot Sison Jr. [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 346932 [Title] => Drilon elected chairman of IPU rights committee [Summary] => Senate President Franklin Drilon vowed to pursue the cases of human rights violations against the Arroyo administration in the international stage now that he was voted chairman of the Committee on Human Rights of Parliamentarians of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU).

In a statement, Drilon revealed that he was elected during the 114th session of the IPU Human Rights Committee in Geneva, Switzerland which started this week.

Drilon said the prestigious international body investigates human rights violations against lawmakers all over the world.
[DatePublished] => 2006-07-12 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 346602 [Title] => Lawyers say attacks on their ranks continue [Summary] => A group of lawyers fears more attacks against fellow lawyers following the recent killing of a lawyer in Quezon City and death threats against three human rights lawyers, among them Romeo Capulong, counsel of the so-called "Batasan Five" lawmakers.

The Counsels for the Defense of Liberties (CODAL) said the murder of lawyer Evelyn Guballa on June 21 in Quezon City has brought to 25 the total number of legal professionals, including 10 judges, killed since President Arroyo took over the government in 2001. Guballa is the fourth lawyer to be killed this year.
[DatePublished] => 2006-07-10 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 342873 [Title] => Joma sings own poems on CD album to be released August [Summary] => PARIS — Communist leader Jose Ma. Sison has gone solo — in releasing a music album, that is.

Two years after Sison and his friends released a CD compilation of revolutionary songs, the poetry of the self-exiled chairman of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) that he has himself rendered into song will come out in CD format this August.

Entitled "Joma Sison Sings His Poems," the communist leader describes the 15-song CD as having a "lyrical and art form."
[DatePublished] => 2006-06-20 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1787018 [AuthorName] => Vi Massart, STAR chief European correspondent [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 340806 [Title] => Beltran’s arraignment deferred [Summary] => The arraignment of Anakpawis party-list Rep. Crispin Beltran and 1st Lt. Lawrence San Juan of the Magdalo Group before a Makati City court was postponed indefinitely after both the prosecution and the defense moved for its deferment.

The Department of Justice (DOJ) asked the proceedings to be cancelled after filing a motion to amend information in the charge sheet in an effort to further detail the charges of rebellion against the two accused.
[DatePublished] => 2006-06-09 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097363 [AuthorName] => Michael Punongbayan [SectionName] => Metro [SectionUrl] => metro [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 337388 [Title] => Gonzales bares communist plan to assassinate GMA [Summary] => National Security Adviser Norberto Gonzales revealed yesterday that an elite communist rebel group reporting directly to communist chief Jose Ma. Sison in the Netherlands has been dispatched to Metro Manila to assassinate President Arroyo and one of her Cabinet members.

When asked who was being targeted among the Cabinet members, Gonzales said it was either himself or Justice Secretary Raul Gonzalez.

The assassination mission aims to pave the way for the setting up of a revolutionary government where key communist leaders will share power with the opposition, he said. [DatePublished] => 2006-05-19 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1650428 [AuthorName] => Perseus Echeminada [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 337206 [Title] => Angara son sixth richest lawmaker [Summary] => Thirty-three-year-old lawyer Juan Edgardo Angara, son of Sen. Edgardo Angara, has emerged as the youngest multi-millionaire in the House of Representatives and was ranked sixth among the richest, with a net worth of P107 million.

Records show that the Aurora congressman declared only P2 million in liabilities, as indicated in a six-page summary report of the statement of assets and liabilities House members had submitted as of December 2005.
[DatePublished] => 2006-05-18 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096652 [AuthorName] => Delon Porcalla [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 336720 [Title] => Malacañang says ‘Batasan Five’ cannot rest easy [Summary] => Top Palace officials warned yesterday that the so-called "Batasan Five," or the left-leaning party-list congressmen, cannot rest easy despite being able to go out of their sanctuary at the House of Representatives and having rebellion charges against them dismissed.
[DatePublished] => 2006-05-15 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805432 [AuthorName] => Paolo Romero [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 336499 [Title] => ‘Batasan 5’ welcome new rebellion raps [Summary] => The left-leaning party-list lawmakers known as the "Batasan Five" are ready to answer in court the rebellion charges filed anew against them and 41 others by the Department of Justice (DOJ) last Friday.

Bayan Muna Rep. Teddy Casiño, one of the five leftist legislators who sought sanctuary inside the House of Representatives to avoid arrest in February, branded the re-filed case as the "same ridiculous, trumped-up charge covering four decades and making the legitimate exercise of the right to dissent an act of rebellion.
[DatePublished] => 2006-05-14 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096652 [AuthorName] => Delon Porcalla [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 336340 [Title] => ‘Batasan 5,’ Joma, Gringo in new raps [Summary] => The Department of Justice refiled yesterday a separate complaint of rebellion against exiled communist leader Jose Ma. Sison, former senator Gregorio Honasan, the leftist lawmakers known as the "Batasan Five" and 40 other people after the Makati regional trial court rejected the DOJ’s motion to merge the charges with those faced by Anakpawis Rep. Crispin Beltran and renegade Army 1Lt. Lawrence San Juan.
[DatePublished] => 2006-05-13 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097133 [AuthorName] => Jose Rodel Clapano [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) ) )
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                    [Title] => PNP still monitors players in foiled 2006 coup
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A year after, some of the people involved in the attempt to  overthrow the government are still being monitored by the  Philippine National Police (PNP).


According to Senior Superintendent Asher Dolina, chief of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group-National Capital Region (CIDG-NCR), they are still monitoring the movements of the other players involved in the foiled Feb. 24 coup attempt last year.
[DatePublished] => 2007-02-24 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1165072 [AuthorName] => Bebot Sison Jr. [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 346932 [Title] => Drilon elected chairman of IPU rights committee [Summary] => Senate President Franklin Drilon vowed to pursue the cases of human rights violations against the Arroyo administration in the international stage now that he was voted chairman of the Committee on Human Rights of Parliamentarians of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU).

In a statement, Drilon revealed that he was elected during the 114th session of the IPU Human Rights Committee in Geneva, Switzerland which started this week.

Drilon said the prestigious international body investigates human rights violations against lawmakers all over the world.
[DatePublished] => 2006-07-12 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 346602 [Title] => Lawyers say attacks on their ranks continue [Summary] => A group of lawyers fears more attacks against fellow lawyers following the recent killing of a lawyer in Quezon City and death threats against three human rights lawyers, among them Romeo Capulong, counsel of the so-called "Batasan Five" lawmakers.

The Counsels for the Defense of Liberties (CODAL) said the murder of lawyer Evelyn Guballa on June 21 in Quezon City has brought to 25 the total number of legal professionals, including 10 judges, killed since President Arroyo took over the government in 2001. Guballa is the fourth lawyer to be killed this year.
[DatePublished] => 2006-07-10 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 342873 [Title] => Joma sings own poems on CD album to be released August [Summary] => PARIS — Communist leader Jose Ma. Sison has gone solo — in releasing a music album, that is.

Two years after Sison and his friends released a CD compilation of revolutionary songs, the poetry of the self-exiled chairman of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) that he has himself rendered into song will come out in CD format this August.

Entitled "Joma Sison Sings His Poems," the communist leader describes the 15-song CD as having a "lyrical and art form."
[DatePublished] => 2006-06-20 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1787018 [AuthorName] => Vi Massart, STAR chief European correspondent [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 340806 [Title] => Beltran’s arraignment deferred [Summary] => The arraignment of Anakpawis party-list Rep. Crispin Beltran and 1st Lt. Lawrence San Juan of the Magdalo Group before a Makati City court was postponed indefinitely after both the prosecution and the defense moved for its deferment.

The Department of Justice (DOJ) asked the proceedings to be cancelled after filing a motion to amend information in the charge sheet in an effort to further detail the charges of rebellion against the two accused.
[DatePublished] => 2006-06-09 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097363 [AuthorName] => Michael Punongbayan [SectionName] => Metro [SectionUrl] => metro [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 337388 [Title] => Gonzales bares communist plan to assassinate GMA [Summary] => National Security Adviser Norberto Gonzales revealed yesterday that an elite communist rebel group reporting directly to communist chief Jose Ma. Sison in the Netherlands has been dispatched to Metro Manila to assassinate President Arroyo and one of her Cabinet members.

When asked who was being targeted among the Cabinet members, Gonzales said it was either himself or Justice Secretary Raul Gonzalez.

The assassination mission aims to pave the way for the setting up of a revolutionary government where key communist leaders will share power with the opposition, he said. [DatePublished] => 2006-05-19 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1650428 [AuthorName] => Perseus Echeminada [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 337206 [Title] => Angara son sixth richest lawmaker [Summary] => Thirty-three-year-old lawyer Juan Edgardo Angara, son of Sen. Edgardo Angara, has emerged as the youngest multi-millionaire in the House of Representatives and was ranked sixth among the richest, with a net worth of P107 million.

Records show that the Aurora congressman declared only P2 million in liabilities, as indicated in a six-page summary report of the statement of assets and liabilities House members had submitted as of December 2005.
[DatePublished] => 2006-05-18 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096652 [AuthorName] => Delon Porcalla [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 336720 [Title] => Malacañang says ‘Batasan Five’ cannot rest easy [Summary] => Top Palace officials warned yesterday that the so-called "Batasan Five," or the left-leaning party-list congressmen, cannot rest easy despite being able to go out of their sanctuary at the House of Representatives and having rebellion charges against them dismissed.
[DatePublished] => 2006-05-15 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805432 [AuthorName] => Paolo Romero [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 336499 [Title] => ‘Batasan 5’ welcome new rebellion raps [Summary] => The left-leaning party-list lawmakers known as the "Batasan Five" are ready to answer in court the rebellion charges filed anew against them and 41 others by the Department of Justice (DOJ) last Friday.

Bayan Muna Rep. Teddy Casiño, one of the five leftist legislators who sought sanctuary inside the House of Representatives to avoid arrest in February, branded the re-filed case as the "same ridiculous, trumped-up charge covering four decades and making the legitimate exercise of the right to dissent an act of rebellion.
[DatePublished] => 2006-05-14 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096652 [AuthorName] => Delon Porcalla [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 336340 [Title] => ‘Batasan 5,’ Joma, Gringo in new raps [Summary] => The Department of Justice refiled yesterday a separate complaint of rebellion against exiled communist leader Jose Ma. Sison, former senator Gregorio Honasan, the leftist lawmakers known as the "Batasan Five" and 40 other people after the Makati regional trial court rejected the DOJ’s motion to merge the charges with those faced by Anakpawis Rep. Crispin Beltran and renegade Army 1Lt. Lawrence San Juan.
[DatePublished] => 2006-05-13 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097133 [AuthorName] => Jose Rodel Clapano [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) ) )
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