Laude kin, activists picket USS Peleliu

(Updated 4:08 p.m.) Relatives of transgender Filipina Jennifer Laude joined activist groups on Saturday afternoon to picket a pier where a US warship that the suspect in her death is being detained is docked.

 

A photo tweeted by GMA News reporter Rida Reyes showed protesters carrying placards and signs calling for the jailing of Pfc. Joseph Scott Pemberton.

 

 

Some of the picketers also called for the scrapping of the Visiting Forces Agreement and the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement.

 

The VFA governs the conduct and treatment of visiting US servicemen taking part in joint military exercises. The EDCA was signed earlier this year and allows an increased US troop presence in the Philippines.

 

Meanwhile, a separate photo tweeted by GMA News' Hadji Rieta showed the militants directing their chants at the USS Peleliu, where Pemberton is assigned.

 

Pemberton faces a murder complaint before the Olongapo City Prosecutor's Office for the killing of Laude, who was found dead in a lodge in the city last week.