Who would ever imagine that a secret torture squad attached to the Philippine National Police would use a crudely made “wheel of fortune” to select the torture technique they would use on their victims? Torture is outlawed by international convention and the Philippine Penal Code yet in 2009 a special law Republic Act 9745 was passed to totally ban it. However, it is still common practice.
The recently launched investigative report by Amnesty International stated that police torture “is commonplace in the Philippines and impunity for it is the norm . . .” Titled “Above the Law: Police Torture in the Philippines,” the Amnesty International researchers with local human rights defenders uncovered secret detention centers and the notorious “Wheel of Fortune” in a torture chamber in Laguna, south of Manila.
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