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"Demo" cruel search band, degrading group of women's rights
MANILA, Philippines – A rights group on Friday condemned the "dehumanizing" strip search of women suspected of drugs by Makati City police officers.
Karapatan's general secretary, Cristina Palabay, said: act of cruel and degrading treatment of a person arrested and / or detained. "
The video clips, broadcast by ABS-CBN, showed police officers laughing and smiling during a search involving a naked woman.The search allegedly took place in Makati prefecture in March 2017. [19659004] "It is deplorable and exasperating that the strip search is considered a" normal procedure "by the Philippine National Police and the Prison and Penology Bureau. This practice should have been considered illegal with the adoption of the anti-torture law in 2009. "
The 2009 anti-torture law guarantees that the human rights of persons, including suspects, detainees and prisoners are respected.
The law also states that "no person under investigation or detained by a person in authority or an agent of a person shall suffer physical, psychological or mental harm, forcibly, violence, threat or intimidation or any act that undermines his or her free will or in any way demeans or degrades human dignity. "
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Palabay also said that the cops involved should be punished under the anti-torture law and their superiors should also be investigated to determine their responsibility.
"Torture is a serious and heinous crime, we demand justice for the victims of torture and the end of the practice and politics of strip searches," she said.
Dir. General Oscar Albayalde ordered the relief of Chief Inspector Valmark Funelas, Constable 1 Stephanie Limhap, M1 Heizelle Maramag and M1 Francis Intia as the investigation into the incident continues
in a radio interview with dzMM Rogelio Simon said that he had been told that the procedure was a demonstration of a strip search. He said that he had been informed that the woman suspected of drugs consented to the procedure for monetary consideration.
Simon added that the strip search is commonly conducted to dispel the suspicions that suspects hide illegal drugs
. The Philippine Drug Control Agency in the central Visayas also conducted strip searches of prisoners in prison. The procedure also provoked criticism after the online broadcast of photos of naked detainees
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