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November 22, 2011, Tuesday
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A PHILIPPINE court yesterday permitted former president Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, under arrest on charges of electoral sabotage, to stay at a Manila hospital until she is fit to be transferred to a detention facility.
Arroyo, 64, president from 2001 to 2010 and now a member of the lower house of congress, remained under heavy guard while her lawyers appealed her case to a Pasay City court.
Court clerk Jose Pelicano said: "The court has agreed to a temporary hospital arrest due to her health conditions and for humanitarian reasons."
A hearing on motions filed by her lawyers was postponed until Friday.
Pelicano said the court made the decision even before Arroyo's lawyers filed a motion to keep her at the hospital. A police doctor made a similar recommendation after examining her on Saturday.
Pelicano added: "The court will still look at the merits of her lawyer's petition to put her under hospital arrest. If the government has no objection, then the court will issue an order. Now, the arrangement is temporary, based on humanitarian grounds."
Arroyo was arrested at a Manila hospital on Friday on charges of electoral sabotage during 2007 elections. She had been there since Tuesday night, when the government stopped her from boarding a flight at the airport.
Arroyo has denied the allegations against her. She says she needs to travel to seek medical treatment for a spine condition. The government believes she wants to evade possible prosecution.
Pelicano said her lawyers had filed motions to prevent an order being issued to block her departure, to cancel the arrest warrant and to dismiss the charges.
Arroyo, 64, president from 2001 to 2010 and now a member of the lower house of congress, remained under heavy guard while her lawyers appealed her case to a Pasay City court.
Court clerk Jose Pelicano said: "The court has agreed to a temporary hospital arrest due to her health conditions and for humanitarian reasons."
A hearing on motions filed by her lawyers was postponed until Friday.
Pelicano said the court made the decision even before Arroyo's lawyers filed a motion to keep her at the hospital. A police doctor made a similar recommendation after examining her on Saturday.
Pelicano added: "The court will still look at the merits of her lawyer's petition to put her under hospital arrest. If the government has no objection, then the court will issue an order. Now, the arrangement is temporary, based on humanitarian grounds."
Arroyo was arrested at a Manila hospital on Friday on charges of electoral sabotage during 2007 elections. She had been there since Tuesday night, when the government stopped her from boarding a flight at the airport.
Arroyo has denied the allegations against her. She says she needs to travel to seek medical treatment for a spine condition. The government believes she wants to evade possible prosecution.
Pelicano said her lawyers had filed motions to prevent an order being issued to block her departure, to cancel the arrest warrant and to dismiss the charges.
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