Cops take Arroyo snaps
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November 20, 2011, Sunday
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POLICE fingerprinted and photographed former Philippine president Gloria Macapagal Arroyo on her hospital bed yesterday over electoral fraud charges.
Arroyo wore a hospital gown and neck brace while sitting on her bed as the police photographer snapped pictures and a technician held her name plate, Police Senior Superintendent Joel Coronel said in Manila.
Members of her family, relatives, friends, as well as her lawyers and doctors, were around, added Coronel, who supervised the procedure.
A police medical officer who examined her said Arroyo appeared to have lost weight, was slightly dehydrated and had an elevated blood pressure of 140/100.
Seventeen months after leaving office, Arroyo became the second ex-Philippine president, after her predecessor Joseph Estrada, to face trial. She denies wrongdoing and accuses authorities of preventing her from seeking overseas medical treatment for a bone ailment.
The 64-year-old Arroyo has been in the hospital since her failed attempt to leave the country last Tuesday.
Police served an arrest warrant in Arroyo's 16th-floor hospital suite late on Friday, capping a day of legal drama in which the Supreme Court upheld her right to travel but a lower court accepted the formal charges against her. The government rushed the case in court, saying Arroyo may be trying to evade justice.
Arroyo wore a hospital gown and neck brace while sitting on her bed as the police photographer snapped pictures and a technician held her name plate, Police Senior Superintendent Joel Coronel said in Manila.
Members of her family, relatives, friends, as well as her lawyers and doctors, were around, added Coronel, who supervised the procedure.
A police medical officer who examined her said Arroyo appeared to have lost weight, was slightly dehydrated and had an elevated blood pressure of 140/100.
Seventeen months after leaving office, Arroyo became the second ex-Philippine president, after her predecessor Joseph Estrada, to face trial. She denies wrongdoing and accuses authorities of preventing her from seeking overseas medical treatment for a bone ailment.
The 64-year-old Arroyo has been in the hospital since her failed attempt to leave the country last Tuesday.
Police served an arrest warrant in Arroyo's 16th-floor hospital suite late on Friday, capping a day of legal drama in which the Supreme Court upheld her right to travel but a lower court accepted the formal charges against her. The government rushed the case in court, saying Arroyo may be trying to evade justice.
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