The minority bloc in
the senate are in unison in their protest regarding the news that senator Lela
De Lima allegedly been in solitary confinement inside the detention center in
Camp Crame in Quezon city since April 25.
Senate Minority
Leader Franklin Drilon and senators Francis Pangilinan and Rissa Hontiveros
jointly wrote Philippine National Police Chief General Archie Gamboa last week
saying De Lima’s placement in “incommunicado detention” was unconstitutional.
The three senators
also asked the PNP Chief to implement the “necessary remedial action” as
regards the condition of senator De Lima.
Senators Drilon, Hontiveros, and Pangilinan (photo credit to owner) |
“This action of the
PNP Custodial Center is unconstitutional, illegal, and violates a cardinal
precept of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International
Covenant and Political Rights that solitary confinement and incommunicado
detention are universally outlawed,” they said.
The minority senator said
De Lima raised her isolation state to the Philippine National Police Custodial
Center but allegedly it was denied “on the pretext of enforcing the Metro-wide
Modified ECQ (Enhanced Community Quarantine).”
The lady senator was
a former Department of Justice (DOJ) Secretary during the Aquino administration
and has been in detention since 2017 over drug related charges while with the
DOJ.
She has repeatedly
said her detention is part of President Rodrigo Roa Duterte’s political
persecution of those who are critical to his policies.
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