Appellate court affirms Zaldy Ampatuan’s indictment in Massacre case
Sunday, November 13th, 2011CMFR/PHILIPPINES – PRIVATE COMPLAINANTS and press freedom organizations are now awaiting the arraignment of suspended Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) Gov. Zaldy Ampatuan after the Manila Court of Appeals (CA) affirmed his indictment for the Nov. 23, 2009 Ampatuan town, Maguindanao massacre.
In its 8 November 2011 decision penned by Associate Justice Noel Tijam, the Manila CA Special (Former) 11th Division dismissed the amended petition for certiorari (with application for issuance of a writ of preliminary injunction) filed by Ampatuan questioning his reinstatement as an accused in the multiple murder case against 196 alleged planners and perpetrators of the Ampatuan, Maguindanao Massacre in May 2010.
