Lawyers groups in Mindanao have urged the DILG and the PNP to investigate the provincial police director of Surigao del Sur, for supposedly issuing a memorandum ordering the Lianga municipal police to profile lawyers acting as counsel to communist rebels.
According to them, Siruno issued a memo on March 29 directing the Lianga police to profile “legal personalities providing litigation to CTG cases.” Cited in that order was Carol Anne General of the Public Attorney’s Office .
The following day, Siruno denied that he issued the memo, saying he came to know about it only after it started spreading on social media in Surigao del Sur. According to the UPLM, the move showed the PNP’s “utter ignorance to comprehend the role of an independent legal profession in a democratic society.”
“Lawyers must be free to fulfill their sworn duties with passion and without fear of profiling, and worst, reprisals,” they said.
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