

Arrest warrants against anti-Manila Bay reclamation activists Jonila Castro and Jhed Tamano connect to the grave oral defamation case filed by the Department of Justice for their claims that they were abducted.
The said arrest warrants were issued on February 2, 2024, by the Doña Remedios Trinidad Municipal Trial Court headed by Presiding Judge Jonna Verdiano, in which she set the bail at P18,000 each.
According to the information filed, Castro and Tamano defamed the Armed Forces of the Philippines after claiming that they were abducted by the military.
The two activists filed petitions for writ of amparo and habeas corpus, which have been granted by the Supreme Court, in which they said that the elements enforced in the disappearance were present in the case.
Tamano and Castro surrendered to the 70IB in Doña Remedios Trinidad, Bulacan, in September 2023, per the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC).
They were initially charged with perjury; however, the DOJ recommended that Tamano and Castro be both charged with grave oral defamation.
On February 21, the environmental activists posted for bail for the filed grave oral defamation case against them.