The trial dragged on for nine years until 2019 when the court handed a guilty verdict and imprisonment to 44 persons including leading members of the Ampatuan clan, members of its private army and ...

MANILA, Philippines — The Sandiganbayan has upheld the conviction of former Maguindanao governor Sajid Ampatuan in connection with the alleged fictitious or “ghost” purchase of palay ...

DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 23 November) – It took ten years and one month for the lower court to hand down its verdict finding the Ampatuan siblings and other principals and accessories guilty of the ...

THE Sandiganbayan has sentenced Shariff Saydona Mustapha, Maguindanao vice mayor Datu Sajid Islam Ampatuan for more than 140 years after he was found guilty along with provincial budget officer ...

SARMIENTO The patriarch, Datu Andal Ampatuan, Sr., long-time mayor of Shariff Aguak town and three-term governor of Maguindanao, passed away in July 2015, four years before the court handed down the ...

AMPATUAN MASSACRE VERDICT. The legal counsels (foreground) and the accused in the 2009 Maguindanao massacre case await the verdict at the Camp Bagong Diwa in Taguig City on Dec. 19, 2019. The ...

At the same time, we must remember that what we achieved with the guilty verdicts is what I described in a Layman’s Guide to the Ampatuan Massacre verdict, published in MindaNews, as “imperfect ...

Regrettably, that one court decision does not mean that the case is “resolved.” Far from it. First, while there has been a verdict, the Ampatuan convictions can still be and, in fact, have been ...

Members of the Ampatuan family sit with other suspects in the 2009 Maguindanao Massacre at the promulgation of the case inside Camp Bagong Diwa in Taguig City last December 19, 2019. Photo courtesy of ...

Andal Ampatuan Jr, his father ... motivated killings and attacks on journalists are common. The “momentous verdict should help provide justice to the families of the victims, and build towards ...

Which must have come as a shock to the legal team of Andal “Unsay” Ampatuan Jnr ... had told the media on the eve of the verdict that his client would walk free as “if you’re not able ...

MANILA, Philippines – The families of victims of the Ampatuan massacre will file a ... Branch 221 because of some confusion in the verdict. “We will file a motion on Monday,” private ...