Gloria Arroyo, hindi pinayagan ng Sandiganbayan na makapagpiyansa

Ibinasura ng Sandiganbayan ang hiling ng kampo ni dating Pangulong Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo na makapag-piyansa.

Hindi raw sapat ang dahilan ni Arroyo na siya ay nade-depress at hindi na mabuti ang kalusugan nito, ayon sa First Division ng Sandiganbayan.

Ayon sa kautusan ng Sandiganbayan: "[Arroyo] cannot be treated differently from other detainees, who could [also] argue that their continues confinement will result [in] severe depression causing them to succumb to different types of serious illnesses."

Idinagdag pa nito: "Depression is common to all detainees, whether he or she be a former president or not. To treat accused [Gloria Arroyo] differently might be violative if the equal protection clause of the constitution. The supplemental motion must therefore be denied."

Ayon sa korte, ang hindi magandang kalusugan ni Arroyo ay dahil sa pagkakakulong nito, na karaniwan ding dinaranas ng mga regular na mga preso.

"The deteriorating health of the accused despite medical attention given to her condition is due not to her limited mobility and confined environment in a medical facility but because she is being detained as an accused which is not conducive to a feeling of well being therefore restraining her from achieving such emotional stability to combat the negative forces that are making her sicker day by day," sabi ng korte.

Gayunpaman, sinabi ng korte na naiintindihan nito ang kondisyon ni Arroyo at hiniling na sana ay gumaling na ito.

Inihain ng mga abugado ni Arroyo ang bail petition kung saan ginamit nilang basehan ang isang 1946 ruling na ginamit dati ni dating Senador Ninoy Aquino sa kanyang bail petition.

Iginiit ng abugado niya na sina Jose B. Flaminiano, Laurence Hector B. Arroyo and Aufelene Anne P. Laxamana na dapat bigyan ng pansamantalang kalayaan si Arroyo dahil sa kalusugan nito.

Noong Nobyembre 2013, ibinasura na ng Snadiganbayan ang hiling din ni Arroyo ng pansamantalang kalayaan.

Naka-hospital arrest ngayon si Arroyo sa Veterans Memorial Medical Center sa Quezon City dahil kasong may kinalaman sa paglustay ng P366 millyong confidential Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office intelligence funds. — JGV /LBG, GMA News