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CHR cracks whip on 2 Navy men
Topic Started: Jul 11 2010, 08:40 AM (668 Views)
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By Rhodina Villanueva (The Philippine Star) Updated July 11, 2010 12:00 AM

MANILA, Philippines - The Commission on Human Rights (CHR) has cited two officers of the Philippine Navy for contempt and imposed fines on them for their failure to attend several of the commission’s public inquiries into the case of the disappearance of a fisherman who was forced to admit to being an Abu Sayyaf member.

Commissioner Cecilia Quisumbing, officer-in-charge of the CHR, said this development signals that the commission will no longer tolerate obstructive and non-cooperative actions by the military and law enforcement agencies.

Captains Antonio Habulan and Bayani Gaerlan, both previous commanders of the Naval Intelligence and Security Force (NISF), repeatedly ignored multiple CHR orders to appear for public hearings that began on Dec. 12, 2008 despite due notice. They also failed to submit the information required by the CHR.

The CHR also fined Habulan and Gaerlan a minimum of P3,000 each for not appearing for an executive session last Friday.

“All military and law enforcement bodies have to observe human rights and have to cooperate with the CHR which has the constitutional mandate to investigate possible human rights violations, including when officers in uniform are implicated,” Quisumbing said.


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