About Abraham Sarmiento Jr.
Abraham "Ditto" Pascual Sarmiento Jr. was a Filipino student journalist who gained prominence as an early and visible critic of the martial law regime of dictator Ferdinand Marcos. As editor-in-chief of the Philippine Collegian, Ditto melded the University of the Philippines student newspaper into an independent though solitary voice against martial law rule at a time when the mass media was under the control of the Marcos government. His subsequent seven-month imprisonment by the military impaired his health and contributed to his premature death. His mother, Irene, was a member of the Pascual family of Malabon, who founded Pascual Laboratories in 1946.
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