Leaders of Makati commotion may face sedition charges - DOJ

Justice secretary Raul Gonzalez on Thursday afternoon said those who led the courtroom walkout and the march to the Manila Peninsula hotel may face charges of sedition. Gonzalez, who was at an emergency Cabinet meeting in Malacañang, said tagged the Makati City gathering of Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV, Brig. Gen Danilo Lim, several opposition figures and their supporters as “illegal." The Justice chief even told media outfits to stop covering live the statements of Trillanes as well as the gathering. "This is an illegal gathering. (We ask) media not to propagate the cause," Gonzalez said in an interview on QTV’s Balitanghali newscast. In the interview, Gonzales also asked the public to keep calm, adding that "the government is in full control of the situation." Gonzalez said the Cabinet's security cluster is now monitoring developments, with security forces now deployed along highways to prevent people in the provinces from sympathizing. "Let us be calm. Consider this as a perennial aberration among the rebels," he said. - GMANews.TV