Plunder is a non-bailable offence in the Philippines and carries a maximum penalty of life imprisonment.

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Blasphemy is not a bailable offence but her lawyers pleaded that she was a juvenile.

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Ahmed Raza Kasuri, one of these attorneys, told reporters that "never before" had a court denied bail on a bailable offence.

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