Labor leader released after court junks ‘fabricated charges’

MANILA, Philippines --- Labor leader Dennise Velasco was finally set free on Tuesday after a Quezon City Regional Trial Court dismissed an illegal firearms case filed against him. Velasco was among the seven human rights activists arrested in December 2020 on what the National Union of Peoples' Lawyers (NUPL) called "fabricated charges." "Our client is now free! Trade unionist Dennise Velasco of #HRDay7 walks free after 14 months of unjust imprisonment on fabricated charges stemming from a void search warrant from Quezon City Executive Judge Villavert," said lawyer Kathy Panguban in a Facebook update. https://ift.tt/5z7ygHp Velasc...

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