MANILA, Philippines — The dismissal of the second 'Bloody Sunday' case is a 'grave disservice to the victims', the National Union of Peoples' Lawyers (NUPL) said in a statement on Saturday. The Department of Justice (DOJ) on Friday cleared 17 police officers accused of killing of fisherfolk couple Anna Marie 'Chai' Lemita-Evangelista and Ariel Evangelista during a series of police raids in 2021 which came to be known as 'Bloody Sunday'. 'This regrettable development in the much vaunted Bloody Sunday cases, which the government promised to closely investigate under its [Administrative Order 35] mechanism, belies its pompous claim that it is rolling out ‘real justice in real time' under an ‘effective and responsive justice system.

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