Party-list reiterates demand for release detained lawmaker; asks why Leviste was allowed bail and Beltran hasn't
Wednesday May 23, 2007
Party-list reiterates demand for release detained lawmaker; asks why Leviste was allowed bail and Beltran hasn't
The chief of staff of detained Anakpawis Representative Crispin Beltran today said that there was clearly a bias against her principal given that his petition for bail filed at the Supreme Court three weeks ago has yet to be approved. Ina Alleco Silverio said that accused killer of a Tondo resident Rowell Quizon, 24, was released on Monday afternoon after he posted a P40,000 bail while ex-Batangas governor Tony Leviste charged with homicide has also been freed on bail.
"Not to express prejudice against Mr. Leviste and Mr. Quizon, but why have they been allowed bail while Rep. Beltran continues to languish in detention? Former senator Gringo Honasan has also been released on bail. The government made a promise not to block Rep. Beltran's motion for bail, and while this may be true, it can't be denied either that the government has not at all acted on the motion. We ask the Supreme Court and the Department of Justice to give due importance to Ka Bel's case. He has been unjustly detained since February 25, 2006 and his accusers have not been able to provide a smidgen of credible proof that he colluded with renegade members of the military in a plot to overthrow the Arroyo presidency," she said.
Silverio said that Anakpawis Party-List which Beltran continues to lead as it chairman and first nominee has long before prepared bail money. "We will be ready with the amount the Supreme Court will stipulate as bail for Rep. Beltran's release," she said.
In the meantime, she said that the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU)'s committee on the human rights of parliamentarians headed by Canadian senator Sharon Carstairs has already been informed of the Philippine govenrment's failure to uphold its committment to allow the release of the detained activist lawmaker.
"The Macapagal-Arroyo government continues to renege on its promise to the IPU that it will allow his release on humanitarian grounds. Even for that we are ready to settle even as we continue to assert Ka Bel's innocence of all the fabricated charges and insist that his arrest and continuing incarceration all comprise political repression," she concluded.#
Party-list reiterates demand for release detained lawmaker; asks why Leviste was allowed bail and Beltran hasn't
The chief of staff of detained Anakpawis Representative Crispin Beltran today said that there was clearly a bias against her principal given that his petition for bail filed at the Supreme Court three weeks ago has yet to be approved. Ina Alleco Silverio said that accused killer of a Tondo resident Rowell Quizon, 24, was released on Monday afternoon after he posted a P40,000 bail while ex-Batangas governor Tony Leviste charged with homicide has also been freed on bail.
"Not to express prejudice against Mr. Leviste and Mr. Quizon, but why have they been allowed bail while Rep. Beltran continues to languish in detention? Former senator Gringo Honasan has also been released on bail. The government made a promise not to block Rep. Beltran's motion for bail, and while this may be true, it can't be denied either that the government has not at all acted on the motion. We ask the Supreme Court and the Department of Justice to give due importance to Ka Bel's case. He has been unjustly detained since February 25, 2006 and his accusers have not been able to provide a smidgen of credible proof that he colluded with renegade members of the military in a plot to overthrow the Arroyo presidency," she said.
Silverio said that Anakpawis Party-List which Beltran continues to lead as it chairman and first nominee has long before prepared bail money. "We will be ready with the amount the Supreme Court will stipulate as bail for Rep. Beltran's release," she said.
In the meantime, she said that the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU)'s committee on the human rights of parliamentarians headed by Canadian senator Sharon Carstairs has already been informed of the Philippine govenrment's failure to uphold its committment to allow the release of the detained activist lawmaker.
"The Macapagal-Arroyo government continues to renege on its promise to the IPU that it will allow his release on humanitarian grounds. Even for that we are ready to settle even as we continue to assert Ka Bel's innocence of all the fabricated charges and insist that his arrest and continuing incarceration all comprise political repression," she concluded.#
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