SAN FRANCISCO, Agusan del Sur (MindaNews / 10 April) — The provincial police director of Surigao del Sur has denied he issued a memorandum ordering the police station in Lianga town to profile a pu…
SAN FRANCISCO, Agusan del Sur — The provincial police director of Surigao del Sur has denied he issued a memorandum ordering the police station in Lianga town to profile a public lawyer rendering legal assistance to alleged communist rebels.
The memo allegedly issued by Siruno on March 29, ordered the police chief of Lianga to profile Public Attorney’s Office lawyer Carol Anne A. General who was said to be assisting New People’s Army rebels in their criminal cases. A collective statement issued on April 6, signed by 16 lawyers from the Integrated Bar of the Philippines in Mindanao, Union of Peoples’ Lawyers in Mindanao, including five deans of colleges of Law in Mindanao assailed the purported memorandum is “a gross display of ignorance and blatant disrespect of the law” and “an undue interference and grave assault on the independence and role of lawyers in our justice system.
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