
Jairo Bolledo
Multimedia Journalist at Rappler
@rapplerdotcom reporter covering justice, police, and crime • Alum & lecturer, PUP journ • 🧡 @ENHYPEN • For leads: 📩 [email protected]
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rappler.com | Jairo Bolledo
MANILA, Philippines – The family of an elderly man is seeking his release after his alleged wrongful arrest by the Philippine National Police (PNP). The family of 81-year-old Prudencio Cebu Calubid Jr. has filed a petition for writ of habeas corpus with the Court of Appeals (CA) to seek his release. His family lodged the immediate relief because he was wrongfully arrested, arguing that Calubid is not the person named in the arrest warrant issued by the Manila Regional Trial Court.
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rappler.com | Jairo Bolledo
MANILA, Philippines — The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) filed two separate criminal complaints Tuesday, April 15, against allies of former president Rodrigo Duterte over disinformation in Duterte’s temporary restraining order (TRO) petition with the Supreme Court (SC).
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rappler.com | Jairo Bolledo
MANILA, Philippines – Retired police colonel Royina Garma is seeking asylum in the United States, her lawyer Emerito Quilang recently announced. “We are asking for a setting because we are requesting for an asylum. But you know, the government, the US government, is very strict,” Quilang told reporters on Monday, April 14.
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rappler.com | Jairo Bolledo
Her name stirs up mixed feelings in people who have witnessed her evolution in the last decades. Some knew Sandra Cam as an anti-corruption whistleblower, while others regarded her as a tool against government critics. Cam passed away at age 64, her family announced on Thursday, April 10.
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rappler.com | Jairo Bolledo
MANILA, Philippines – Original Pilipino music (OPM) has bid farewell to another legend. Pilita Corrales, who earned the title of “Asia’s Queen of Songs” for her invaluable legacy in Philippine music, has died, her family announced on Saturday, April 12. She was 85. “It is with a heavy heart that we announce the passing of our beloved mami and mamita, Pilita Corrales,” Pilita’s granddaughter, actress Janine Gutierrez, wrote in a Facebook post.
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