I owe Ms. Amal Alamuddin Clooney a huge apology.

While I was writing the “give her liberty” column on President Arroyo (“ Gloria Arroyo: Give her liberty, or give her, God forbid”, Manila Times, Oct. 6), Ms. Clooney was coincidentally writing online to GMA’s lawyers to give them the happy news that the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention has ruled that the continued detention of President Arroyo is arbitrary and illegal under international law.

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