<div class="gmail_quote">From: <b class="gmail_sendername">CHD ManCom</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:chdmancom@gmail.com">chdmancom@gmail.com</a>></span><br><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://freethehealthworkers.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%">Court grants Judilyn Oliveros’ plea to breastfeed child outside jail</span></b></a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%">Free the 43
Health Workers! Alliance today announced that the lower court has finally
granted Carina “Judilyn” Oliveros’ plea to breastfeed her month-old son outside
Camp Bagong Diwa.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%">In a decision
issued yesterday, Presiding Judge Gina F. Cenit-Escoto of the Morong Regional
Trial Court Branch 78 ruled that mother and baby be allowed to stay at the
Philippine General Hospital (PGH) on the basis filed by Oliveros’ legal
counsels stating that <i>“allowing accused
to breastfeed her infant in PGH would substantially serve the purpose of their
original Motion for Release on Recognizance for Humanitarian Reasons.”</i><span> </span>The order further stated that <i>“the grant of the instant motion would
result to avoidance of any harm and danger that the child may suffer while in
Camp Bagong Diwa, including the unjust incarceration of the said child in a
detention facility.”</i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%">Oliveros
will be allowed to stay in Philippine General Hospital for a period of three
(3) months.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%">“This is a
positive development for Judilyn’s plea and the case of the Morong 43 as a
whole,” Carlos Montemayor, spokesperson of the alliance said.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%">Montemayor
added that though they are disappointed<i><span style="color:red"> </span></i>that the court did not grant Oliveros’ plea for a
6-month period to stay at the PGH, they are still relieved that Judge
Cenit-Escoto ruled in favor of Oliveros and her baby.<span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%"><span> </span>“This welcome development is clearly the
result of the unwavering perseverance of the detainees, their families and
supporters to further the call to free the Morong 43. We also hope that Mercy
Castro, one of the 43 detained health workers, due to give birth on October,
would not have to suffer the ordeal that Judilyn and her baby experienced.<span> </span>We continue to challenge President Noynoy
Aquino to prove that he is sincere in upholding justice and democracy by
releasing the Morong 43 and all political prisoners in the country,” Montemayor
concluded.## <span> </span></span></p>
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