Environmental activists Jonila Castro and Jhed Tamano, who exposed that they were almost victims of a fake surrender, post bail for grave oral defamation.
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00:00 Environmental activists Jonila Castro and Jed Tamano, who exposed that they were almost
00:05 victims of a fake surrender, post-bail for grave oral defamation.
00:11 Castro and Tamano were doing groundwork on a reclamation in Bataan province when abducted
00:15 in September last year.
00:17 Later, security officials announced that Castro and Tamano were already safe and sound because
00:22 they allegedly voluntarily surrendered to the military.
00:26 Being a presser held by the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict
00:30 or NTF-LCAC to present the two as surrenderees, Castro and Tamano went off script and belied
00:36 claims they had surrendered.
00:38 For embarrassing and putting the military in a bad light, they were slapped with a perjury
00:42 complaint.
00:43 Although the DOJ prosecutors dismissed the perjury, it moved to indict Castro and Tamano
00:48 for grave oral defamation.
00:50 This comes shortly after the Supreme Court granted protective writs to the two activists.
00:56 (bell chimes)