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PHILIPPINES: Police investigators concludes torture victims' testimony as hearsay to justify refusal to prosecute policemen

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Urgent Appeal Update : The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you that the local police have concluded that it will not prosecute policemen accused of torture because the victims' testimonies are hearsay. They will not take action unless they are "formalized as complaint". We earlier asked for an investigation on the victims allegations that they were tortured in June 2005. No investigation was conducted until we made our appeal. But when the police did investigate they blamed the torture victims for not filing a complaint and placed the burden on them to provide evidence for their allegations. Read More...

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Torture in the Philippines

Unthinkable delays in investigating and filing charges in court on complaints, for example the case of the Abadilla Five, detainees who had been illegally arrested, tortured to confess responsibility to the murder of an influential police colonel, Rolando Abadilla, who was murdered in 13 June 1996, remains to have not been filed in court. Their complaints have not been resolved and filed in court, despite a by the Office of the Ombudsman for the Military and Other Law Enforcement Offices (MOLEO) despite 13 years have passed.

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