The families of indigenous peoples’ rights advocates Dexter Capuyan and Gene Roz Jamil De Jesus, who disappeared more than two months ago, asked the Court of Appeals to order law enforcement authorities to surface their missing kin.
“If there is anything that recent abduction cases prove, it is the existence of secret prisons maintained by state forces, in violation of Republic Act 10353 or the Anti-Enforced or Involuntary Disappearance Act of 2012.”
By RONALYN V. OLEA
The new law, the first of its kind in Asia, imposes a punishment of life imprisonment on those directly involved in the crime of enforced disappearance as well as on superior officers who order or are otherwise implicated in a disappearance.
By RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat.com MANILA — “The President should not wait a minute longer in enacting this bill into law.” This was the statement issued by Desaparecidos, an organization of families of victims of enforced disappearances with the passage of the Anti-Enforced Disappearance bill by both the Senate and Congress, October 16. The Anti-Enforced…