BAGUIO CITY—A court in Tagum City, Davao del Norte province recalled the warrants of arrest it issued in 2020 for five activists in Northern Luzon who had been implicated by police in the murder of a lumad activist in 2018.
In a Feb. 19 order, Judge Sharon Rose Saracin, of Tabuk City Regional Trial Court Branch 30, granted the separate motions filed by Windel Bolinget, Lutgardo Jurcales Jr., Jackie Valencia, Agnes Mesina and Reynaldo Garneng for reinvestigation and suspension of the arrest warrants issued against them.
Bolinget is chair of Baguio-based militant Cordillera Peoples Alliance (CPA) while his co-accused belong to various groups in the Cagayan Valley region.
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