'If a person is already deceased or dead, it is useless to try the case,' says retired judge Meinrado Paredes
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CEBU, Philippines – A Cebu City court has dismissed the terrorism financing charges against two deceased activists, retired judge Meinrado Paredes, the legal counsel of Cebu-based human rights activists, told Rappler on Wednesday, June 26. “Without ascertaining the existence of the , the military went and filed the complaint,” Paredes said, describing the filing of the charges as “reckless.”
Paredes shared that lawyers and friends of the third deceased respondent were unable to secure a death certificate as they could not find living relatives who can prove that the accused was dead.In a statement on social media, the Alliance for the Advancement of Peoples’ Rights in Central Visayas hailed the dismissal as a ”triumph of truth.”
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