A Quezon City court on Friday found activist couple Benito and Wilma Tiamzon guilty of kidnapping and serious illegal detention in connection with the 1988 abduction of four soldiers in Quezon province.

Judge Alfonso Ruiz 2nd of Quezon City Regional Trial Court Branch 216 handed down the verdict and sentence of reclusion perpetua or 40 years imprisonment.

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