“We, NDFP peace consultants and political prisoners, led in making complaints against the absurd and cruel confiscations and many other human rights violations committed by the ‘greyhound’ operatives of the national jail authorities. In reprisal the latter ordered the confiscation of the typewriter that we used to type our complaints. The national director of the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology all the more absurdly tried to justify the confiscation of the typewriter, claiming that typewriters are also considered as ‘contrabands’ – Alan Jazmines, National Democratic Front of the Philippines peace consultant and political prisoner, Special Intensive Care Area 1 Jail, Camp Bagong Diwa, Bicutan, Taguig City, October 1, in his statement “Even a lot worse this time inside Bicutan”
he calls them “greyhounds”,
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