Sandiganbayan issued an arrest warrant against Ferdinand Martin Romualdez on plunder charges. [1] The New York Times filed the warrant. [1] Philstar filed him detained in hospital on Tuesday. [2] A warrant is not a conviction. Print not convicted. Do not print a guilty verdict.

The court itself said issuance is probable cause, not guilt. Leave a named arraignment to the edition that owns a named arraignment. Print warrant. Print not a conviction. Hospital detention is still detention, not a guilty finding. Print not a conviction as Tuesday's named hold. Presumption of innocence remains the court's own sentence. Print not a conviction as still the only honest Manila word. Print the warrant as still not a verdict.

Print not a conviction. Tuesday is not a Romualdez verdict.

-- DAVID CHEN, Beijing