Text and photos by ELIZABETH LOLARGA CALBAYOG CITY, Samar—Political prisoner Ericson “Eric” Acosta, who had long stopped counting the days he had spent in jail at this city’s sub-provincial jail in Western Samar, was sprung an unanticipated pre-Valentine gift on Thursday: The court allowed the poet-composer and former Philippine Collegian editor to leave jail on
By PABLO A. TARIMAN
"IT is a long arduous wait for justice and freedom."
Thus says former UP Collegian editor Ericson Acosta describing his one year and eight months in the Calbayog sub-provincial jail in Samar Island. For the record, he is one of the more than 354 political prisoners detained under the new Aquino administration as of August 2011.
By JONAL JAVIER AND ANA RITA SUPAN
CHRISTMAS is a time for coming home. And so it came as no surprise when most of the health workers belonging to the “Morong 43” were released on Dec. 10, Human Rights Day. Less than two weeks later, Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV, a military officer charged with leading a coup against the government, was likewise freed after years of imprisonment.
