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FORMER Negros Oriental Representative Arnolfo Teves Jr. was released but later re-arrested amid his ongoing extradition proceedings in Timor Leste .In a statement, Teves’ legal counsel Ferdinand Topacio said the former lawmaker was released from preventive detention “because the request for extradition by the Philippines Government was made out of time and in a manner that is not sanctioned by practice and customary international law.”“In other words, our government 'screwed up'.
In another statement, Topacio stood by his earlier statement that Teves “was in point of fact and law released from detention.” “I'm here in Dili and I was presented with the order of the court, and my colleagues in Timor Leste who speak Portuguese apprised me of the ratio decidendi of the decision to the effect that the detention of Representative Teves was illegal because the extradition request of the Philippines, in legal parlance, was one big camoteng cajoy na may ulalo pa,” he said.
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