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Some senators called to revisit the anti-hazing law that was just amended in 2018 to check on its implementation after a student of Adamson University died allegedly during his initiation into a fraternity chapter.
The Court of Appeals has ordered a Manila court to exclude a majority of evidence in the fatal hazing of University of Santo Tomas law freshman Horacio Castillo III that were found in the Aegis Juris fraternity’s library in Sampaloc, Manila.
It will be better, if not best, if the government will consistently increase the budget for the Department of Justice Witness Protection, Security and Benefit Program so as to encourage more witnesses to testify against criminal masterminds, according to a lawmaker.
The administration of the University of the Philippines in Diliman, Quezon City is looking into an alleged hazing incident involving a fraternity.
(Photo courtesy of Anadolu) MANILA - President Rodrigo Roa Duterte denounced hazing and all forms of physical abuse in initiation rites anew, noting that killing "helpless" neophytes can never be acceptable. "You cannot be more of a man even to yourself if you kill another human being na helpless, hindi naman makaganti (who is helpless, cannot even fight back)," he said in a prerecorded Talk to the People aired Wednesday morning. Recounting his own experience, he said almost all fraternities have a history of deaths due to intense physical punishment. Duterte, a member of L...