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THE protection of the Department of Justice was
sought by the spouse of jailed broadcaster Alexander Adonis, for
fear for the life of her husband.
In a letter to Justice Secretary
Raul Gonzalez, Gladys Adonis said she is worried about her husband
being pulled out from the Davao Penal Colony (Dapecol) and brought
to the Davao Medical Center for an unscheduled check-up on December
11, without any authority from the Justice department.
“He was not seriously sick and
he did not make the request for a check up at the said
hospital,’’ Gladys said.
She pointed out that there was no
notice given to them that Adonis will be brought to the hospital.
“Press reports coming from
Davao later showed it was Davao Rep. Prospero Nograles who—playing
a ‘Good Samaritan’—paid for the check up for my husband who
suffers from tuberculosis,” Gladys added.
Gladys said that there were news
reports that showed it was Nograles who asked the Bureau of
Corrections to have Dapecol personnel escort Adonis to the hospital.
She said she is displeased with
this incident which appears to be a media and political stunt by
Nograles.
In January 2007, the Davao
Regional Trial Court found Adonis guilty of libel and was sentenced
to five years and six months in jail after he waived his right to
present his side on the libel case filed against him by Nograles in
2001.
Adonis stressed that his problem
in financing a lawyer forced him to go into hiding. The case
originated from the reports and commentaries of Adonis and other
mediamen related to the “Burlesque King’’ scandal.
--Jomar Canlas
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