(MANILA BULLETIN)
“It is easy to plant these materiel whose possession are monopolized by the police and military especially if done at dawn or night and when the arrested persons are first segregated, controlled, or neutralized and have no chance to prevent or witness such anomaly,” said the legal opinion of National Union of People’s Lawyers (NUPL) president Edre Olalia posted in his social media accounts following the arrest last Thursday, Dec. 10, of Lady Ann Salem, editor of the alternative news site Manila Today which has been tagged by government officials as being part of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP).