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By Jomar Canlas, Reporter
THE Supreme Court
is challenged to issue another petition for a writ of amparo after a
third case was lodged before the magistrates.
A seven-page
petition with prayers for temporary protection order and inspection
of documents was filed by Lourdes Rubrico of the Ugnayan ng Maralita
para sa Gawa at Adhikain against the members of the Armed Forces of
the Philippines (AFP) and the Philippine National Police (PNP).
In her petition,
Rubrico said she wanted her place of detention be identified and the
documents pertaining to her arrest be surfaced.
She alleged that
she was abducted by armed men belonging to the 301st Air
Intelligence and Security Squadron, based at the Philippine Air
Forces Field Station Fernando Air Base, Lipa City on April 3.
The petitioner
alleged she was kidnapped and detained without any legal basis,
without charges being filed, and without any warrant of arrest shown
to her.
One week after
her abduction, on April 10, at 10 p.m., she was released after
signing a statement that she would become their asset, the pleading
recounted.
While Rubrico was
detained, her daughter Mary Joy Rubrico Carbonel and Jean Rubrico
Apruebo were harassed by Senior Insp. Arsenio Gomez. They were also
followed by armed men.
She filed a
criminal case before the Office of the Ombudsman on April 20, but
the case is still pending against Gomez and several members of the
AFP and PNP.
Rubrico was
released from detention, but wanted to put to task her captors this
time. She lodged a petition for a writ of amparo since the
Commission on Human Rights faced a blank wall in its investigation,
and she deemed that there is no other remedy to probe her case, but
for the High Court to issue a writ of amparo.
She prayed before
the High Court to order the Office of the Ombudsman to file the case
of kidnapping against the AFP and PNP men.
“It is most
respectfully prayed unto this most honorable court to allow the
inspection of the office of the 301st Air Intelligence and Security
Squadron, based at the PAF Field Station…for purposes of
identifying the place of detention of Lourdes Rubrico,” the
petition says.
It was also
prayed that the necessary documents regarding the case of Rubrico be
disclosed to the court.
Recently, the SC
issued a writ of amparo in favor of the parents of UP students
Sherlyn Cadapan and Karen Empeno, along with one Manuel Merino, a
farmer.
The trio were
allegedly forcibly abducted by elements of the Philippine Army 56th
Infantry Batallion, under then-Gen. Jovito Palparan, in the house of
a certain Raquel Halili, at Barangay San Miguel, Hagonoy, Bulacan on
June 26, 2006.
The petitioners,
led by Erlinda Cadapan, mother of Sherlyn, argued that new evidence
on the enforced disappearance will be presented in the court
proceedings for the petition for a writ of amparo to force the
military elements responsible for the abduction of the victims.
The second writ
of amparo issued by SC mandates Court of Appeals Justice Lucas
Bersamin to conduct summary hearing on the petition of brothers
Raymond and Reynaldo Manalo who were allegedly abducted by the
military.
The case reached the SC when it reviewed the
CA’s decision to junk their petition for habeas corpus.
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