Saturday, May 1, 2010

38 health workers moved to Camp Bagong Diwa

by: ANDREO C. CALONZO, GMANews.TV
05/01/2010

The military has finally moved 38 of the 43 health workers arrested for allegedly being members of the New People’s Army to a regular detention facility, the Armed Forces spokesperson said Saturday.

Lt. Col. Arnulfo Burgos, military spokesperson, confirmed to GMANews.TV in a phone interview that the 38 health workers have been brought from Camp Capinpin in Rizal province to Camp Bagong Diwa in Taguig City on Saturday at about 5 p.m.

The 38 health workers were transferred by virtue of an order by acting Presiding Judge Amorfina Cerrado-Cesar of the Morong Regional Trial Court Branch 78.

Lt. Col. Noel Detoyato, spokesperson of the Philippine Army’s 2nd Infantry Division, meanwhile said that Camp Bagong Diwa’s warden has already given the military the go-signal for the transfer of the detainees.

The 38 health workers were supposed to be transferred to Camp Crame in Quezon City, but the Philippine National Police requested that they be transferred somewhere else, citing the “risks" of transferring the suspected rebels to the police facility in Quezon City. (See: 38 health workers still with military despite court order)

At present, the 38 health workers are facing illegal possession of firearms and explosives

The other five detainees remained at Camp Capindin, Detoyato said.—JV, GMANews.TV
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PNP wants Morong workers detained in Rizal jail

The Philippine National police on Monday asked a Rizal court to order the transfer of 38 detained health workers to the Rizal Provincial Jail in Taytay town.

In his motion, PNP custodial center head Superintendent Cesar Magsino asked Rizal Regional Trial Court Branch 78 presiding judge Amorfina Cerrado-Cezar to place the suspected communist rebels under the custody of the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology.

"The BJMP is mandated to maintain the custody and safekeeping of any prisoner, any gugitive from justice or person detained awaiting investigation or trial, and or transfer to the National Penitentiary and other institutions in accordance with law," he said.

The 38 are among the 43 workers arrested during a military and police raid on February 6 at a farmhouse in Morong, Rizal, on suspicions that they were communist rebels attending an explosive training. The workers, who have since denied the allegations, are detained at the Army's Camp Capinpin in Tanay town.

Five of the 43 workers have reportedly admitted membership to the New People's Army and were applying to state witnesses. They have been transfereed to unidentified locations.

Citing security measures, Magsino on Monday explained that the Rizal Provincial Jail is the more reasonable detention facility for the health workers becauseof its proximity to the Rizal regional trial court.

The PNP Custodial Center is about 30 kolometers away from the regional trial court, ehile the provincial jail is only seven kilometers away.

"Given the number of accussed, more or less 100 PNP personnel and 20 vehicles will be detailed and dispatched to secure the accussed everytime their appearance is required by the court, " said Magsino

"if the 38 accused will be detained at PNPCC in Camp Crame, it is of public knowledge that concerned groups will stage series of demonstrations and rallues within and around the vicinity of Camp Crame to propagate their causes, thereby, creating serious public disturbance," he added.

The Rizal court had earlier ruled the 38 workers be detained at the PNP Custodial Center in Camp Crame, Quezon City, but the National Police is still asking the court to reconsider its decision. - with Sophia Dedace/RSJ, aricle from GMANews.tv/4/26/2010

Morong 43

Morong 43
The illegally detained Health Workers

Relatives of the Health Workers

Relatives of the Health Workers
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Victims of illegal detention

Victims of illegal detention
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