Who’s Tacloban Metropolis RTC Decide Georgina Perez?

In 2023, Tacloban Metropolis Regional Trial Courtroom Decide Georgina Perez flew to Australia as a part of a Philippine judiciary delegation to take part in a authorized counter-terrorism technical help research go to

Tacloban Metropolis Regional Trial Courtroom Department 45 Decide Georgina Perez convicted 26-year-old Frenchie Mae Cumpio of terrorism financing, however acquitted her within the unlawful possession of firearms and explosives case.

Lay employee Marielle Domequil, 28, additionally obtained the identical sentence. The 2 have been in jail for almost six years, following their arrest on February 7, 2020, on the workplace of different information outlet Japanese Vista in Tacloban Metropolis, along with rights advocates Alexander Philip Abinguna, Mira Legion, and Marissa Cabaljao. They’re collectively known as the “Tacloban 5.”

Native and worldwide teams condemned Cumpio’s conviction, saying it sends a “chilling message” to media, activists, and even peculiar folks within the Philippines.

Then-president Rodrigo Duterte appointed Perez Tacloban Metropolis RTC decide in 2017. She was then promoted as vice govt decide in 2020 and in a while as govt decide in 2022.  

In 2023, Perez flew to Australia as a part of a Philippine judiciary delegation led by Supreme Courtroom Chief Justice Alexander Gesmundo to take part in a authorized counter-terrorism technical help research go to.

Decide Perez was acknowledged on November 30, 2024, because the “most excellent regional trial court docket decide” by Japanese Visayas Media With out Borders. The group describes itself as “a convergence of media practitioners in Japanese Visayas” with a purpose “to offer the general public with well timed and related information and knowledge across the area and the nation as nicely.”

The Built-in Bar of the Philippines – Leyte Chapter additionally acknowledged Perez as “Excellent Member of the Judiciary” in 2025.

This isn’t the primary time Perez has handed down a conviction in a terrorism financing case. On July 30, 2024, she dominated that Lucila Mabanan Gabane was “responsible past affordable doubt of trying to commit the crime of financing terrorism.”

Gabane was sentenced to an indeterminate jail time period starting from 4 months to over three years.

Perez’s husband, Roy Percival Perez, is a councilor within the municipality of Abuyog, Leyte. – Rappler.com