The Philippine National Police (PNP) shouldn’t have performed a warrantless arrest on a salesman in Agusan del Norte for posting criticism on social media about President Duterte, human rights lawyer Jose Manuel “Chel” Diokno said Thursday (May 14).
“The limited authority given to the police to arrest without warrant is only for crimes that occur in their presence or for hot pursuit,” the chairman of the Free Legal Assistance Group in his social media posts.The lawyer reminded the PNP that only judges are “equipped with the knowledge and impartiality to decide if a person should be jailed for libel.”
Police said Orcullo posted in Visayan: “We know the pattern. Sen. Christopher Go will try to make a scripted request to crazy President Duterte. Duterte is stupid. Digong is crazy.”
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