Negros Occidental journo information prison, administrative complaints vs judges, prosecutors

Journalist Erwin Delilan says he turned a sufferer of blatant harassment after prosecutors allegedly failed to tell him of the case he was arrested for on two separate events

CEBU, Philippines – Negros Occidental-based journalist Erwin “Ambo” Delilan on Friday, February 20, filed prison and administrative complaints earlier than the Workplace of the Ombudsman in opposition to prosecutors and judges for depriving him of his rights after two latest arrests.

Delilan, in copies of the grievance despatched to Rappler on Friday, accused the next of gross abuse of authority or oppression, ignorance of the regulation, and neglect of obligation:

• Bacolod Metropolis Regional Trial Courtroom Department 45 Presiding Choose Phoebe Gargantiel-Balbin
• Talisay Metropolis Prosecutor Manelee Mijares-Manahan
• Bago Metropolis Regional Trial Courtroom Department 62 Presiding Choose Irene Teves-Villaser


• Bago Metropolis Prosecutor’s Workplace officer-in-charge Ma. Christy Uriarte

The journalist was first arrested on January 19 in relation to fees of unjust vexation. Bacolod Regional Trial Courtroom Department 45 issued the arrest warrant subject on January 12. The warrant didn’t present particulars in regards to the case, besides that Delilan was accused of unjust vexation dedicated via info and communication expertise.

The journalist was arrested a second time on the identical fees on February 16, by advantage of an arrest warrant issued by Bago Metropolis Regional Trial Courtroom Department 62 Choose Irene Teves-Villaser.

Delilan was accused of unjust vexation on each events over his Hiligaynon poems on his social media web page which criticized Negros Occidental officers.

In accordance with the journalist, he was disadvantaged of his fundamental constitutional proper to be told of the complaints filed in opposition to him previous to the arrest.

“It was solely after I posted bail once I knew the respective complainants and instances they filed in opposition to me,” Delilan wrote within the grievance.

Citing Rule 112 of the Guidelines of Courtroom on Legal Process, Delilan mentioned that he ought to have been despatched a subpoena and allowed to file a counter affidavit or reply to the accusations in opposition to him.

Part 3 of Rule 112 of the Guidelines of Courtroom states that the respondent shall have the appropriate to look at the proof submitted by the complainant which he might not have been furnished and to repeat them at his expense.

“However in my instances in Bacolod and Bago, it can’t be understood — [if] both common or abstract proceedings was actually utilized — however the truth stays, I used to be not subpoenaed, or knowledgeable of the complaints in each instances. I used to be simply arrested sans data of all the things,” Delilan mentioned.

Delilan careworn that within the prosecutors and judges’ act of creating “shortcuts” on authorized procedures, he ended up as a sufferer of blatant harassment two instances. – Rappler.com