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“The charges against him were meant to silence his union work. Eight years is too long. He should be free.”
“Rimando is praying for a chance to spend his remaining days in a place with sufficient access to the needed care of his medical condition, and if possible, unification with his family,” a portion of his petition before the Bohol Regional Trial Court (RTC) Branch 15 read.
Nasino’s counsel, Katherine Panguban of the National Union of Peoples’ Lawyers said that baby River Emmanuelle did not simply die of pneumonia but of the prevailing injustice in the country.
By RONALYN V. OLEA
While weak from the effects of the hunger strike, political prisoner Ericson Acosta relates how he adjusted to life in prison, the difficulties being faced by his co-inmates who come from families of peasants and workers, and the struggles of political prisoners under an administration that remains deaf , mute, and blind to their situation.
Sidebar: Heavily-armed soldiers guard jail of political prisoner
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