snoop1130 Posted January 18, 2023 Share Posted January 18, 2023 Various human rights groups and progressive including Karapatan held protests on March 7 at the Commission on Human Rights compound to condemn the Bloody Sunday raids in Calabarzon region that resulted in nine deaths and six arrests. Karapatan / released MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Justice dismissed the murder complaints filed against 17 police officers over the killing of labor leader Manny Asuncion, one of the activists slain in the Bloody Sunday raids in 2021. The DOJ panel of prosecutors, in a resolution released only on Tuesday night, dismissed the complaint for murder under Article 248 of the Revised Penal Code against the cops for “insufficiency of evidence.” “We lament the demise of Emmanuel Asuncion. However, complainant and the evidence she submitted failed to discharge the obligation to prove the existence of a crime and identify the perpetrators thereof. In the absence of proof, there could be no probable cause to charge the respondents,” the resolution said. Full Story: https://www.philstar.com/headlines/2023/01/18/2238451/doj-junks-murder-raps-vs-police-officers-over-killing-labor-leader-bloody-sunday-raids -- © Copyright Philstar 2023-01-18 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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