SC allows live coverage of Maguindanao massacre verdict through PTV

“The live coverage/streaming of the promulgation would allow the families and relatives of the 58 victims who may not be able to attend the promulgation in Metro Manila to hear live the reading of the court’s decision on the killing of their relatives,” they said.

The Presidential Task Force on Media Security also asked for permission from the court for state media and the Presidential Communications Operations Office to be allowed to cover the verdict.The verdict on the Maguindanao massacre will be handed down by the Judge Jocelyn Solis-Reyes of the Quezon City Regional Trial Court Branch 221 at the Quezon City Jail Annex at Camp Bagong Diwa in Taguig City at 9 a.m.

Hosaka added that his office has been instructed to immediately upload a copy of the decision on the SC website once available. He added that journalists would not be allowed inside the courtroom to give space for over a hundred accused, the families of the victims, and their counsels.READ: Philippine National Police officer-in-charge PLtGen Archie Gamboa has ordered to tighten security at the Quezon City Jail Annex.

Among the 58 victims in the massacre on November 23, 2009 were 32 journalists. The incident has been tagged as the world’s deadliest single attack against the media workers and the worst case of election-related violence in the Philippines. In an earlier statement, the NUJP said it expects “nothing less than a conviction” for those involved in the killings.

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