THE party-list group Akbayan has initiated the anticipated flurry of legal challenges to Proclamation No. 1017 yesterday, filing a petition for certiorari and prohibition against Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo's imposition of a state of national emergency. ...

MRS. Carmen Diokno read this statement at yesterday's morning mass celebrating the 84th birth anniversary of her late husband, Senator Jose W. Diokno. Today, February 27, is his death anniversary. Show Us Edsa On July 2 last year, the Jose W. Diokno...

THE police today forwarded to the Department of Justice two lists containing the names of a total of 59 individuals, including members of leftist party-list groups, leaders of the communist party and renegade soldiers, that it said were guilty of...

FORMER president Fidel V. Ramos sees no immediate end to street protests "with the situation now exacerbated by the proclaimed 'national emergency' condition." But, Ramos says, such protests will not spark a reprise of People Power 1986....

FOLLOWING last Saturday's arrest of Anakpawis Rep.Crispin Beltran, police authorities have filed a new case against him for the crime of inciting to sedition.  The charge sheet said Beltran made "seditious utterances" during the...

REGIONAL and local media and press freedom/communication rights advocates have expressed alarm in the wake of a media clampdown under the state of national emergency declared by Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. Below are statements issued by the Southeast Asian...

COLONEL Ariel Querubin, the Marine officer who figured in yesterday's seven-hour standoff in protest of the supposed voluntarily relief of his commandant, Maj. Gen. Renato Miranda, at the Marines headquarters in Fort Bonifacio, is no ordinary soldier. ...