Tulawie returned to Davao; Gov Tan says “I leave it to the courts’
By Carolyn O. Arguillas, MindaNews.com
January 20, 2012

  (PENANG, Malaysia) – “I leave it to the courts,” Sulu Governor Sakur Tan said upon learning that human rights activist Temogen “Cocoy” Tulawie’s transport to Sulu to face charges there was stopped by the Supreme Court.

Tulawie, who as arrested in Davao City nearly midnight on January 13 was flown to Zamboanga City noon of  January 17 noon en route to the provincial jail in Sulu but the Supreme Court ordered his return to Davao City in accordance with its June 2011 resolution granting Tulawie’s petition to transfer the venue of the trial of his cases from the Regional Trial Court Branch 3 in Jolo, Sulu, to the RTC in Davao City.

Tulawie is facing charges of multiple frustrated murder and multiple attempted murder in connection with a roadside bombing that injured 12 persons in Sulu in September 2009, including Governor Tan.

“I leave it to the courts,”  Tan, who is attending a “Consolidation for Peace for Mindanao” seminar here since Monday,  told MindaNews.

On Tuesday, when Tulawie was flown to Zamboanga City en route to Sulu, Tan told MindaNews, “from my end, he will be very, very safe.”

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