Lino Brocka arrested in 1985 for protest assembly

Both film-makers are reported to have been charged, together with others, as leaders of an illegal assembly, under Presidential Decree 1834, for which the maximum penalty is life imprisonment and for which bail is not permitted.

The director, Lino Brocka, who is a persistent critic of the Marcos Government, was charged this week with organizing an illegal assembly and is being held without bail. A well-known stage director, Behn Cervantes, is being held on the same charge.

Filmmaker Lino Brocka together with other activists who attended a protest rally and jeepney strike were all detained under a Preventive Detention Action issued by then President Marcos on January 28, 1985.

On January 28, 1985, Brocka and Behn Cervantes were arrested during a nationwide jeepney strike. They were charged for organizing an illegal assembly and denied bail, although they both stated that they were attending in sympathy with the drivers. They were released after 16 days.

In 1985, Lino joined a nationwide strike organized by public transportation drivers, where he was arrested with his friend and fellow director Behn Cervantes. Lino and Behn were jailed 16 days.

Enrile case, which, for La Viña, ... Ferdinand Marcos was still president.[33] Brocka, Cervantes, and Severino were subsequently charged with illegal assembly and inciting to sedition....

Deprived of the right to bail and remained under detention, Lino Brocka, Benjamin Cervantes, Cosme Garcia and Rodolfo Santos (hereafter Brocka, et al.) were subsequently charged with Inciting to Sedition with no bail; they asserted their petition to enjoin the criminal prosecution for the Inciting to Sedition charge by questioning the legality of enjoining a criminal prosecution of a case. The petitioners were arrested and charged with Illegal Assembly under article 146 of the Revised Penal Code (RPC) on the 28th of January 1985 following the forcible and violent dispersal of a demonstration called by the Alliance of Concerned Transportation Organization (ACTO).

Petitioners Lino Brocka, et al. were arrested on January 28, 1985, following the forcible and violent dispersal of a demonstration held in sympathy with the jeepney strike called by the Alliance of Concerned Transport Organization (ACTO) pursuant to the Preventive Detention Action (PDA) issued by then President Ferdinand E. Marcos. Thereafter, they were charged as leaders of the offense of Illegal Assembly ...

He shared with The Diarist.ph what he remembered when Brocka, Behn Cervantes, and other activists were rounded up and arrested by cops from the Northern Police District on Jan. 28, 1985 for leading an illegal assembly, “following the forcible and violent dispersal of a demonstration held in sympathy with the jeepney strike called by the Alliance of Concerned Transport Organization.”