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Local authorities are now looking into possible violations by the police during an operation conducted in Cebu City to “rescue” 19 Lumad children who were allegedly kidnapped and abused.
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Police files kidnapping raps against 7 Lumad students, teachers
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL
MANILA – Police filed kidnapping and serious illegal detention charges against seven individuals arrested in a raid at the University of San Carlos-Talamban campus in Cebu City on Feb. 15, according to Save our Schools Network (SOS)-Cebu.
Three adult Lumad students, two teachers, and two datus (tribe leaders) were subjected to inquest proceedings online at Police Regional Office- Region 7 at around 11 this morning, Feb 17.
The seven are Grade 10 students Moodie Mansimuy-at and Esmelito Oribawan, Grade 12 student Jomar Benag, volunteer teachers Chad Booc and Roshelle Porcadilla, datus Benito Bay-ao and Segundo Milong.
Published February 16, 2021 2:44pm Supreme Court (SC) justices are set to wrap up on Tuesday the interpellation of petitioners seeking to nullify the Anti-Terrorism Act of 2020 at the resumption of the oral arguments. Chief Justice Diosdado Peralta earlier said the court would end its interpellation of the lawyers representing the 37 petitions and then move to the presentation of positions of the amici curiae as well as the arguments of the government. Solicitor General Jose Calida, the government’s top lawyer, will also face questioning by the justices. Last week’s session tackled the powers of the Anti-Terrorism Council, the need to pass an anti-terror legislation, definition of terrorism and the law’s supposed chilling effect on critics of the government.
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Arrested Lumad students, teachers denied access to lawyers
Screengrab from The Freeman video of Feb. 16 raid in the retreat house at the University of San Carlos-Talamban campus Cebu City.
“It contradicts the proper protocols of handling children. Supposedly they should have been brought to a social welfare facility and not in an undisclosed place.”
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL
MANILA – The Lumad students who were taken by the police yesterday from the retreat house in University of San Carlos-Talamban campus in Cebu City have yet to be located, a lawyer said on Tuesday, Feb. 16, in an online program of the AlterMidya Network.