Justice Secretary Menardo I. Guevarra said yesterday the Department of Justice has moved for the return to jail of National Democratic Front consultants and Communist Party of the Philippines leaders who were granted temporary liberty to participate in the peace talks.
But since the peace talks set last month have been cancelled, Guevarra said these NDF consultants and CPP leaders should return to their detention cells in line with the conditions in their temporary release.
Specifically, Guevarra said he has directed prosecutors to file the necessary pleadings before the regional trial courts of the cities of Manila and Taguig.
“I have given instructions to the prosecutors concerned to move for the revocation of the court orders which allowed the NDF consultants and CPP leaders to post/re-post bail and travel to the Netherlands or Norway, in view of the cancellation of the peace talks scheduled last week,” Guevarra said.
Given provisional liberty to participate in the peace talks were NDF consultants and CPP leaders Benito Tiamzon, Adelberto Silva, Rafael Baylosis, Randall Echanis, Vicente Ladlad, and Alan Jazmines.
Tiamzon, Silva, Baylosis, Echanis, and Ladlad were allowed to post bail for their multiple murder cases to enable them to travel to the Netherlands and later to Norway for the peace talks. The Taguig RTC granted temporary liberty to Jazmines.
-Rey G. Panaligan
