The Supreme Court en banc has temporarily stopped a hero’s burial for the late President Ferdinand Marcos as it hears six petitions filed by martial law victims seeking to oppose the plan of the Duterte administration.

SC spokesman Theodore Te on Tuesday said the high court en banc during a session last August 16 accepted and consolidated the six petitions filed by groups of martial law victims, and “issued a status quo order for twenty days.”

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