Name one person arrested because of political beliefs during the martial law regime? ADVERTISEMENTDiokno’s family was reacting to former Senator Juan Ponce Enrile’s claim that no critic of the former President Ferdinand Marcos Sr. was arrested during the martial law years. The family branded Enrile’s claim as “distortion of history.”“To deny that Marcos arrested persons who criticized him is, again, to peddle with falsehood,” they said. “The thousands of claimants whose rights were violated by the martial law regime, and whose claims have and are being officially processed, belie Enrile’s assertion,” the family said. He was one of the first lawyers to provide legal assistance to political prisoners and victims of martial law, documenting the many cases of torture, disappearance, and death.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer September 21, 2018 08:35 UTC