Suspect in judge slay freed
after posting bail
IT’S A SAD DAY FOR VICTIMS
OF INJUSTICE: BRITANICO
BY CARLA GOMEZ

One of the three detained members of the Revolutionary Proletarian Army-Alex Boncayao Brigade accused for the murder of Kabankalan Regional Trial Court Judge Henry Arles before the Department of Justice was released from the Bacolod district jail in Barangay Taculing, Bacolod, yesterday morning after posting bail.

Alejandro Capunong, 28, of Barangay Tabu, Ilog, posted a P80,000 surety bond, for illegal possession of firearm charges filed against him by the National Bureau of Investigation before the Bacolod RTC.

The DOJ preliminary investigation into the NBI-filed raps for the murder of the judge against Capunong and his co-accused is still ongoing.

Vice mayor files
petition vs. namesake
BY CHRYSEE SAMILLANO

Bacolod Vice Mayor Jude Thaddeus Sayson filed a petition yesterday asking the Commission on Elections to issue an order declaring Julius Sayson a nuisance candidate.

Julius filed his certificate of candidacy for mayor and will be running against mayoralty candidates Vice Mayor Jude Thaddeus Sayson of the Nationalist People’s Coalition-Grupo Progreso and former Bacolod Rep. Monico Puentevella of MKK (Magbinuligay Kita sa Kauswagan).

In his petition, Sayson said Julius has no bonafide intention to run for public office other than to put the election process in mockery and to confuse the voters of Bacolod City by the similarity of their surname, thereby preventing the faithful determination of the true will of the electorate of Bacolod for the position of mayor.

MANILA – The Supreme Court yesterday suspended a controversial cybercrime law amid huge online protests over fears it would impose severe curbs on Internet freedoms.

The court declared in a brief written notice that the law would be suspended for four months while the tribunal studies the arguments for and against it.

“The court resolved...to issue a temporary restraining order, effective immediately and for a period of 120 days, enjoining the respondents from implementing and/or enforcing (the cybercrime act),” it added.