“If there is anything that recent abduction cases prove, it is the existence of secret prisons maintained by state forces, in violation of Republic Act 10353 or the Anti-Enforced or Involuntary Disappearance Act of 2012.”
By RONALYN V. OLEA
The new law, the first of its kind in Asia, imposes a punishment of life imprisonment on those directly involved in the crime of enforced disappearance as well as on superior officers who order or are otherwise implicated in a disappearance.
By RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat.com MANILA — “The President should not wait a minute longer in enacting this bill into law.” This was the statement issued by Desaparecidos, an organization of families of victims of enforced disappearances with the passage of the Anti-Enforced Disappearance bill by both the Senate and Congress, October 16. The Anti-Enforced…