We hail the Department of Justice resolution granting poet-activist Ericson Acosta’s petition for review, reversing probable cause and dismissing trumped-up charges of illegal possession of explosives (Inquirer, 1/12/13) as it finally officially exposed the trumped-up charge of illegal possession of explosives against our client who has suffered gross injustice. Somehow, it renews our hope that the dogged pursuit of justice and persistent efforts to right a wrong will ultimately be rewarded.
We hope that the many who are politically persecuted, thrown in jail on false or fabricated charges through legal shortcuts and hocus-pocus, and made to indefinitely wait in anguish, will get their own well-deserved freedom.
—EDRE U. OLALIA,
secretary general,
JUN OLIVA, counsel from NUPL,
National Union of Peoples’ Lawyers, nupl2007@gmail.com