THE Supreme Court has allowed three communist leaders temporary liberty to attend the resumption of peace talks with the government on August 20 in Oslo, Norway, but denied freedom to 11 others who have pending cases in the lower courts.

Given provisional liberty by the High Court were Randall Echanis, Vicente Ladlad and Satur Ocampo, who were slapped with murder charges following the discovery of a mass grave in Leyte in 2006.

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