Welcome Guest [Log In] [Register]
Welcome to Philippines Defense Forces Forum. We hope you enjoy your visit.


You're currently viewing our forum as a guest. This means you are limited to certain areas of the board and there are some features you can't use. If you join our community, you'll be able to access member-only sections, and use many member-only features such as customizing your profile, sending personal messages, and voting in polls. Registration is simple, fast, and completely free.


Join our community!


If you're already a member please log in to your account to access all of our features:

Username:   Password:
Add Reply
The PNP's "Wheel of Torture" -a horrifying addition to the justice system
Topic Started: Jan 29 2014, 10:39 PM (355 Views)
MSantor
Member Avatar

PDFF Mod Group
I hope this does not mean that the PNP is emulating what a number of their Philippine Constabulary predecessors did during the Marcos era.

National Post (Canadian newspaper site)

Quote:
 


Philippine police accused of playing ‘wheel of torture’ game to punish criminal suspects


MANILA, Philippines — Philippine police officers played a “wheel of torture” game to have fun and punish criminal suspects during interrogations, including bouts of punching named after boxing star Manny Pacquiao, human rights officials and activists said Tuesday.

Under the game, detainees — mostly suspected drug traffickers — were punched if the “torture wheel” stopped at “20 seconds Manny Pacman,” Pacquiao’s nickname, or hung upside down if it stopped at a punishment called “30-second bat,” Amnesty International said. The London-based rights group called the practice despicable.

A picture of the multi-colored wheel provided by the Commission on Human Rights showed several other tortures, including “3 minutes zombies” and “30-second duck walk/ferris wheel” but it was not immediately clear how those punishments were carried out.

“It’s horrible,” commission Chairwoman Loretta Ann Rosales said. “They do it for fun, it’s like a game for entertainment. We’re trying to correct this mindset based on a human rights approach to policing but obviously it may take a lot of time.”

(...)- SNIPPED


Lawmakers enacted an anti-torture act in 2009 and the Philippines has ratified an international convention against torture.

“Despite these, the road ahead remains littered with the vestiges of this despicable practice,”
Rosales said. The police abuse “offers a stark contrast between policy and practice. In many places, it seems torture is still considered SOP (standard operating procedure) by some law enforcement personnel,” she said.

In 2010, all 11 officers in a Manila city police station were relieved of their duties after a television station aired a video purportedly showing police hitting a naked robbery suspect. The video showed the suspect screaming on the floor as a man pulled a string bound around his genitals.


"If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right." - Henry Ford

"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm."
- Winston Churchill


"If everyone is thinking alike, someone isn't thinking"- Gen. George S. Patton
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
seWer Rat
Member Avatar
amateur sewer cleaner

the bastard cops probably had great fun playing their cruel game

Posted Image
To avoid criticism, write nothing, say nothing, do nothing, BE NOTHING.
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
1 user reading this topic (1 Guest and 0 Anonymous)
« Previous Topic · Philippine National Police · Next Topic »
Add Reply