For sake of accountability: SC urged to review courts’ issuance of search, arrest warrants for activists

By James Hernandez

The Supreme Court (SC) has been urged to conduct a review of the courts which issued search and arrest warrants that resulted in abuses against activists who were either killed or arrested on trumped up charges.

“For accountability and justice to hold sway, we press that a review be made of all cases that emanated from the sala of those judges who turned their courts into a search warrant factory that led to the arrest and outright killing of activists,” read the statement of Fides Lim, spokesperson of political prisoners support group Kapatid.

“Start off with Judge Cecilyn Burgos Villavert and down the line,” she said.

Lim pointed this out after the SC released the rules on the use of body-worn cameras which law enforcement have been required to use during the serving of arrest and search warrants.

The spokesperson explained these judges “should be made to answer for brazen violations of basic rights, due process and the rule of law, which the new SC decision seeks to rectify.”

“This is especially true in the cases of targeted activists who were the subject of these search warrants that were used as basis for manufacturing charges of illegal possession of firearms and explosives, which were in fact planted as evidence to keep them in prolonged detention,” she stated.

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