Makabayan bloc lawmakers have filed a resolution asking the House of Representatives to condemn the police’s alleged profiling of a lawyer in Mindanao, who was providing legal assistance to a client accused of being a communist rebel. | GabrielLaluINQ
It could be remembered that last April 6, several lawyers from Mindanao signed a joint statement condemning the Philippine National Police after the Surigao del Sur Police Provincial Office supposedly instructed the Lianga Municipal Police Station to profile the lawyer.
CTG refers to a communist terrorist group, often designated to communist armed groups waging a civil war in the countryside.PNP has denied the existence of such a directive. Police spokesperson Col. Jean Fajardo said the provincial police director of Surigao del Sur PPO — Col. Dennis A. Siruno, whose signature is present in the memorandum — denied issuing the order.
“This illegal practice of profiling of legal personalities is not only an undue interference and grave assault on the independence and role of our lawyers, it is a mockery of our judicial system, and a threat to the people and the Philippine democracy,” Makabayan said in HR No. 917.
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