Amnesty International, the human rights organization that is conducting the Stop Torture campaign in various countries, said police torture is prevalent in the Philippines and called on Filipinos to help stop this practice.

At the launch of its report in Quezon City on Thursday, Steven Crawshaw, assistant to Salil Shetty, secretary-general of Amnesty International, said police torture “is commonplace in the Philippines and impunity for it the norm.

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