Amicus Curiae
β’ The Committee to Protect Journalists condemned the prolonged detention of journalist Frenchie Mae Cumpio as “inhumane,” arguing it contradicts a justice system that claims to uphold media freedom.
β’ The Committee to Protect Journalists condemned the prolonged detention of journalist Frenchie Mae Cumpio as “inhumane,” arguing it contradicts a justice system that claims to uphold media freedom.
β’ A legal process that takes six years to resolve, discarding its original premises yet arrives at a severe conclusion, two activists were convicted of financing terrorism, with their case involving prolonged detention and collapsed evidence of their arrest.
β’ Three activists remain jailed six years later. Two were convicted of terrorism financing, despite the evidence for their arrest being invalid. They received 12β18 year sentences.