Wednesday, July 13th, 2011
SUSPENDED AUTONOMOUS Region of Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) governor Zaldy Ampatuan asked the court last 5 July, 2011 to allow him to undergo a medical examination in a private hospital. The request came six days after a member of the Andal Ampatuan Sr. household staff testified that Andal Sr. was present at the meeting during which the November 23, 2009 massacre of 58 men and women including 32 journalists was planned.
Zaldy, through his legal counsel Redemberto Villanueva, filed a “Very Urgent Motion for Medical Examination” before the Quezon City Regional Trial Court (RTC) stating that they “want him (Zaldy) to undergo an examination due to his fluctuating blood pressure and sugar level brought about perhaps by the changing weather.” The five-page motion stated that the suspended governor prefers to be examined and confined at St. Luke’s Global City.
A clinical summary allegedly written by a Reynaldo Romero, M.D. claims that the governor is suffering from “Type 2 Diabetes Poorly Controlled with Possible Retinopathy and Nephropathy.”
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Tuesday, July 12th, 2011
CMFR/PHILIPPINES – THE SUPREME Court of the Philippines named the branch of court handling the Ampatuan Massacre case as a “special court” last 28 June 2011.
In a 28 June 2011 resolution, the Supreme Court en banc granted the petition filed by the National Press Club of the Philippines (NPC) and Alyansa ng Filipino Mamamahayag (AFIMA, Alliance of Filipino Journalists) asking that Branch 221 of the Regional Trial Court of Quezon City be named as “a special court which should have no other duties but the trial of Maguindanao massacre cases.”
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Friday, July 8th, 2011
CMFR/PHILIPPINES – The Regional Trial Court (RTC) judge hearing the Ampatuan (Maguindanao) Massacre case denied last 1 July 2011 the primary accused’s motions protesting the inclusion in the prosecution’s list of witnesses other accused persons and a confessed participant in the 23 November 2009 incident in which 58 people including 32 journalists and media workers were killed.
Quezon City RTC Branch 221 Judge Jocelyn Reyes-Solis dismissed in a five-page order the motions of Andal “Unsay” Ampatuan Jr. dated 20 August 2010 and 16 September 2010 which seek the exclusion of 33 other accused and of Kenny Dalandag as witnesses for the prosecution. Former Ampatuan security man Dalandag has admitted participation in the execution of the 23 November 2009 Ampatuan massacre.
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