NBP: Mothers of missing UP students met with Palparan in Bilibid

INMATE PALPARAN Retired Major General Jovito Palparan talks to reporters at the Reception and Diagnostics Center (RDC), Building 3, Cell 321 of the Bureau of Corrections compound in Muntinlupa City on Thursday, October 4, 2018. Palparan was transferred to the New Bilibid Prison after he was found guilty of kidnapping two UP students who remain missing until today. —INQUIRER PHOTO/GRIG C. MONTEGRANDE

MANILA, Philippines — The mothers and lawyers of missing University of the Philippines (UP) students Sherlyn Cadapan and Karen Empeño were allowed to enter the New Bilibid Prison (NBP) in Muntinlupa City on Thursday to determine for themselves if former Maj. Gen. Jovito Palparan remains incarcerated there.

NBP director Superintendent Gary Garcia said in a statement that Erlinda Cadapan and Concepcion Empeño saw Palparan at the minimum security compound for “over an hour.”

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NBP: Mothers of missing UP students met with Palparan in Bilibid

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