More lawyers supportive of the Laude family have expressed disgust with the decision of President Rodrigo Duterte to grant absolute pardon to US Marine Lance Corporal Joseph Scott Pemberton. | GabrielLaluINQ
“On behalf of the Laude Family and the entire membership of Kilusan and Kaisa Ka, we strongly denounce the absolute pardon given by Duterte. This is another injustice not only to Jennifer Laude and family but a grave injustice to the Filipino people,” Suarez said in a statement.
“This is a travesty of Phil Sovereignty and democracy. This is another hallmark of Philippine’s subservience to the US. There are too many Filipino convicts, already in their twilight years serving their sentence, why give it to a foreigner, a US soldier who committed an atrocious crime?” she asked. Meanwhile, the National Union of People’s Lawyers also slammed Duterte’s decision, calling it a “brazen and shameless sell-out.”
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