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SC asked to reconsider ruling on VFA
(UPDATE) Several cause-oriented groups have urged the Supreme Court to order the immediate transfer of convicted rapist Lance Corporal Daniel Smith to Philippine custody.
SolGen defends Smith embassy detention
Convicted rapist Daniel Smith’s detention by US authorities at the US embassy is valid under the Visiting Forces Agreement, Solicitor General Agnes Devanadera said in a motion filed before the Supreme Court late Wednesday afternoon.
DFA gave sovereignty away in Smith case
MANILA, Philippines -- Foreign Affairs Secretary Alberto Romulo should quit for allegedly surrendering the country’s sovereignty by signing an agreement with US Ambassador Kristie Kenney allowing convicted rapist Daniel Smith’s detention at the American embassy, the dean of a law school said Wednesday.
Any action on VFA premature—Kenney
MANILA, Philippines—The United States government rejected calls to revisit—if not scrap—the Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA), saying that doing so would be “premature” at this stage of its implementation.
Anti-VFA group defies ‘blockades’
NAGA CITY – The Bikolano Alliance for Nationalism against Balikatan (Ban Balikatan) said Monday that their protest caravan calling for the scrapping of the Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) would go on despite “blockades” set up by the Armed Forces of the Philippines in several strategic locations in the region.