The Supreme Court ordered the Philippine National Police (PNP), Armed Forces of the Philippines, and National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) to conduct a thorough investigation into the alleged abduction and torture of Filipino-American activist Melissa Roxas.
Despite the video purportedly showing him tugging a string attached to a naked man’s genitals, dismissed Senior Insp. Joselito Binayug entered a plea of not guilty on Wednesday to the charge that he and six other Manila policemen tortured a robbery suspect in 2010.
Police Senior Inspector Joselito Binayug, the former police official who was caught on camera torturing a suspect inside a police station in Manila, has been arrested after being spotted while renewing his driver’s license.
The Egyptian military ordered senior doctors to operate without anaesthetic on protesters injured during demonstrations against military rule, according to extracts of a leaked report published in the Guardian newspaper on Friday.
Thirty tortured and disfigured bodies have been found in the northern Damascus neighborhood of Barzeh, the scene of regular clashes between regime troops and rebels, a watchdog said on Monday.
MANILA, Philippines—Proponents of the long-delayed bill to compensate victims of human rights violations during the Marcos dictatorship are hopeful that 2013 will be the year that the measure is finally enacted into law. The passage of the law would end years of waiting for the victims of torture, killings, and enforced disappearances, and their [...]
A farmer, who was abducted by suspected military men in 2006, told a court here on Monday that he saw University of the Philippines students Karen Empeño and Sherlyn Cadapan being tortured by soldiers before they went missing later that year.
The couple, accused of locking up and maltreating their housemaid until she went blind, were brought yesterday before a Quezon City court clad in jail detainee shirts.
A Quezon City court on Thursday rejected an “extremely urgent” motion filed by a couple accused of torturing their housemaid until she went blind to be detained at the National Bureau of Investigation.
A woman drew the ire of Senate Pro Tempore Jose “Jinggoy” Estrada for taking videos of him while he was presiding over a hearing in the Senate on Wednesday.
The wife who has been accused of maltreating a house maid was herself a victim of physical abuse by her own husband.
The Court of Appeals has dismissed a petition of a Manila policeman who questioned a local court for proceeding with his trial on charges that he and some fellow officers tortured a crime suspect inside their precinct.
The couple who went into hiding after their housemaid accused them of maltreating her until she became blind turned themselves in Monday at the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI).
