By MYLAH REYES-ROQUE
TWO of seven Manila cops implicated in the torture of a theft suspect through a video leaked online have surrendered and are detained at the Manila City jail. Senior Police Officer 1 Rodolfo Ong Jr. and Police Officer 1 Rex Binayug pleaded not guilty on April 18 before Manila Judge Tita Bughao Alisuag. Their co-accused, including Senior Inspector Joselito Binayug, the principal accused, are at large.
By MEI MAGSINO
CHARITY Diño, a former school teacher in Calapan, Oriental Mindoro, has been languishing at the Batangas Provincial Jail for almost two years now.
By MYLAH REYES ROQUE
THE Manila policeman dismissed from the service after he was caught on video allegedly torturing a theft suspect at a Tondo police station is now teaching—in a college for would-be policemen.
By MYLAH REYES ROQUE
ASPER Evangelista was so convinced that some Manila policemen were behind his son's disappearance in March last year that he went straight to the chief of the police station in Tondo weeks later with a desperate request.
"Buhay man siya o patay, ibigay nyo sa akin (ang katawan). Ilalagay ko lang siya sa ayos, hindi ko kayo irereklamo (Dead or alive, please release my son's body to me and I will not file a complaint against you)," he begged Senior Supt. Rogelio Rosales.
By KENNETH GUDA and MYLAH REYES ROQUE
SOME members of the Philippine National Police and the Armed Forces of the Philippines are like Roman soldiers subjecting people to the same Calvary—arrest and torture—that Christ went through two millennia ago.
