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1 results foundAuthor: Cheesman, Nick Title: The Criminal Justice System of the Philippines is Rotten Summary: This report examines the situation of criminal justice and wanton killings, disappearances, assault, arbitrary detention and torture by state officers or their agents in the Philippines. The report contains details of 110 specific cases, involving 227 victims, including 81 incidents of killing or attempted killing documented by the sister organisation of the ALRC, the Asian Human Rights Commission since 2004, 62 of them since the start of 2006 alone. The remaining 39 cases relate to incidents of torture, disappearance, abduction, illegal arrest and intimidation. The report discusses these individual cases with reference in particular to the country¡¦s defective policing, and inept prosecution and witness protection programme, handled by the Department of Justice. It also discusses them with reference to the role of the military, and in particular, the labelling of persons extrajudicially killed as ¡§enemies¡¨ or equivalent, in order to create a category of citizens for whom the ordinary laws no longer need apply and who may be killed without fear of consequences or the prospect of effective investigation. The manner in which this is now being done threatens the entire criminal justice system, and more broadly, the very fabric of government and democracy of the country. Six suggestions are given for ways to stop the rot, including with reference to the need for an urgent comprehensive review of the Philippines criminal justice system; the rationalising of its deficient witness protection programme and law; the strengthening of agencies for the receipt, investigation and prosecution of complaints against police and military officials; the use of labelling; action on findings into extrajudicial killings; and the enactment of domestic laws on torture, enforced disappearance and other fundamental rights in accordance with binding agreements under international treaties and the recommendations of treaty bodies. (Excerpts from document) Details: Hong Kong: Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC), 2007. 192p. Source: Internet Resource; Article 2 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights; Vol. 6, no. 1; Accessed August 17, 2010 at: http://www.article2.org/pdf/v06n01.pdf Year: 2007 Country: Philippines URL: http://www.article2.org/pdf/v06n01.pdf Shelf Number: 113032 Keywords: Criminal Justice Systems (Philippines)Human RightsPolicing (Philippines)ProsecutionTortureViolence (Philippines) |