“With the issuance of Presidential Proclamation No. 572, published on Sept. 4, 2018, Trillanes is expected to go back to jail anytime soon.”
“Trillanes amnesty revoked by Duterte for senator's failure to comply with requirements,” journalist Ira Panganiban wrote on Facebook.
It can be remembered that in March last year, Chief Presidential Legal Counsel Sec Salvador Panelo said that he would review the amnesty granted to Senator Antonio Trillanes IV.
“I don't know of the facts of the case yet but there are some legal quarters expressing the same uncertainty or doubt on that. I'll go over the case. Then, I'll give you my proper response,” Panelo told the reporters.
Panelo said that if the amnesty was invalid, Trillanes could be sent back to jail.
“Anything that is not the law can be a precedent. It is always in the context of the law. So kung nagbigay siya ng amnesty na mali, eh hindi valid iyon. But I don't know the facts of the case,” Panelo said.
And today, September 4, 2018, Presidential Proclamation No. 572 was published in the broadsheets. It basically announces the revocation of the amnesty granted by BS PANOT Aquino to Antonio Trillanes.
Panelo stressed that the Duterte administration was only after prosecution of law breakers.
“We are not in the business of persecuting people. We are in the business of prosecuting people who violate the law and as the President says it is his duty to protect and serve the people,” Panelo said.
Former President Benigno Aquino III in 2010 granted Trillanes and others facing rebellion charges amnesty for their involvement in the Oakwood Mutiny in July 2003 and the Manila Peninsula siege in November 2007.
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