HOW TO GET AWAY WITH TERROR w ri t te n by Jazryl Carl Galarosa
g r a p hi c s by Deitro Dazo
It was the afternoon of July 7 when Cristina Palabay, secretary general of human rights alliance Karapatan, was served a warrant of arrest by an official who introduced himself as an LBC courier. Another officer in plainclothes accompanied him as the perjury complaint of National Security Adviser Hermogenes Esperon against Palabay, officers of Karapatan and two other organizations was revived and filed in court. Despite the recall order for an arrest warrant against Palabay issued on April 29, the police officials insisted that they only received the warrant of arrest on July 6. All of these, from the courier scheme, plainclothes, to the operation procedures by the police, were illegal under their own written handbook.
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