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In this photo released by the Philippine National Police Public Affairs Office, former Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, right, who is currently under hospital arrest, talks to an unidentified counsel prior to the start of her arraignment at the Sandiganbayan (Anti-graft Court) Monday, Oct. 29, 2012 at suburban Quezon city, northeast of Manila, Philippines. Arroyo, who is charged with plunder for allegedly misusing state lottery funds, refused to enter a plea prompting the anti-graft court to enter a not guilty plea on her behalf. At extreme left is her son Congressman Dato Arroyo. (AP Photo/Ernesto Lasig, Philippine National Police)