Student activist Archimedes Trajano is killed after publicly criticizing Imee Marcos

In 1977, three days after student activist Archimedes Trajano questions Imee Marcos about her being the head of Kabataang Barangay, he is found “dead with signs of beating and apparent torture and his body and face severely mangled.” In 1922 US civil court rules in favor of the Trajano estate vs Imee Marcos.

Part of the document reads, "Although Marcos-Manotoc's default concedes that she controlled the military intelligence personnel who tortured and murdered Trajano, and in turn that she was acting under color of the martial law declared by then-President Marcos, we have concluded that her actions were not those of the Republic of the Philippines for purposes of sovereign immunity..."