“A justice system that favors grafters and plunderers over those who fight for accountability is one that runs on impunity and dispenses injustice,” the groups said. They repeated their call to “Jail the corrupt and free all political prisoners.” The groups contrasted Revilla’s release with the continued detention of political prisoner Fatima Banjawan whose petition for bail was denied despite what they described as planted evidence and perjured testimonies by soldiers. “But no elderly, ailing and long-detained political prisoner has been released despite these precedents, showing that the justice system treats equal protection of the law as an alien concept when it comes to political prisoners,” Laya and Selda said in a statement. “This decision exposes the sharpest irony of Philippine justice: swift, compassionate discretion for the powerful but rigid severity and endless delays for political prisoners and poor persons deprived of liberty,” said Kapatid spokesperson Fides Lim.