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Tag: Martial Law Mindanao

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    Categories FACT CHECK News

    THIS WEEK IN FAKE NEWS: War in Marawi NOT YET over

    By VERA FILES  |  Oct 06, 2017 4:06 PM

    These fake reports trended on social media this week. Don’t believe them.

    fake news, Marawi City, Martial Law Mindanao

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    Categories Commentary

    Former solon says Martial Law fits Duterte’s authoritarian bent

    By Charmaine C. Deogracias  |  Jul 11, 2017 10:24 PM

    Former congressman Ashley Acedillo (Magdalo Partylist) said the only kind of governance President Duterte knows is authoritarianism.

    Ashley Acedillo, Martial Law Mindanao, Rodrigo Duterte

  • ETPresident-Duterte-Speaker-Pantaleon-Alvarez_Malacanang photo.jpg
    Categories Commentary

    ‘Martial law pa more’

    By Ellen T. Tordesillas  |  Jul 10, 2017 7:16 AM

    House Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez said he will be pushing for a five-year extension of Martial Law in Mindanao declared by President Duterte last May 23 and is supposed to end on July 22, two days before he delivers his second State-of-the Nation address.

    Boiling a frog, Martial Law Mindanao, pantaleon alvarez, Rodrigo Duterte

  • Categories Commentary

    The dissenting voices

    By Ellen T. Tordesillas  |  Jul 07, 2017 10:16 PM

    Of the four members of the Supreme Court who dissented from the majority decision upholding President Duterte’s declaration of Martial Law and suspension of the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus in the whole of Mindanao, three ( Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno, Senior Associate Justice Antonio T. Carpio, and Associate Justice Alfredo Benjamin S. Caguioa)
    supported him as far as Marawi City was concerned.

    Martial Law Mindanao, supreme court

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    Categories News

    Magdalo: No affiliation with Maute

    By Ellen T. Tordesillas  |  May 28, 2017 2:07 PM

    Rep. Gary C. Alejano of the Magdalo Party-list denounced as malicious and irresponsible the reports being spread by a former undersecretary in the Arroyo administration linking their organization to the Maute Group whose terrorist campaign in Marawi City President Duterte said compelled him to declare Martial Law in Mindanao on May 23.

    Abe Purugganan. Maute group, Magdalo, Martial Law Mindanao

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