STATEMENT OF NUPL-PANAY ON THE MURDER OF ATTY. ANTHONY TRINIDAD The National Union of People’s Lawyers (NUPL)-Panay condemns even as it mourns the murder of our brother in the legal profession Atty. Anthony Trinidad. He was driving home from a court hearing July 23 afternoon in Guihulngan, Negros Oriental when attacked gunmen riding in tandem on a motorcycle who sidled up with his car and opened fire. Atty. Trinidad was pronounced dead on arrival in a hospital; his wife Novie Marie was injured. Guihulngan PNP chief Lt. Col. Bonifacio Tecson told reporters that Atty. Trinidad sought protection from local PNP after receiving death threats from an anti-Communist group which tagged the slain lawyer “supporter” of the New People’s Army (NPA) and was in its hit list. The murder of Atty. Trinidad casts another dark blot on the regime of Pres. Rodrigo Duterte for its lackadaisical work and negligence in protecting its own people, if not downright complicity and partici
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