The SOS Network staged a quick protest in front of PRO-7 denouncing the irregularities of the PNP in handling Teacher Roshelle Porcadilla. Porcadilla was brought to the PRO-7 from the CCPO w/o the knowledge of her relatives or her legal counsel under orders of Debold Sinas.
It also took 24 hrs after her arrest before her legal counsel was able to meet her as the PNP attempted to hide her from her family & colleagues. She was also made to sign a statement in an affidavit even w/o her counsel & faced intimidation by the people holding her in custody.
During the mobilization, PCol. Robert Limbawan threatened to arrest protestors, who were assailing the lies and irregularities of the PNP. The PNP, for one, has baselessly claimed that NUPL-Cebu is not the legal counsel of Porcadilla, when Porcadilla has signed -
the Request for Preliminary Investigation and Waiver of Article 125 of the RPC conforming that the NUPL-Cebu will represent her.
We condemn these irregularities and the threat to arrest protestors who were demanding that the PNP respect the civil rights of Porcadilla.
ALERT: COVID-19 HEALTH PROTOCOLS USED TO JUSTIFY ISOLATION OF DATU BENITO, DATU SEGUNDO, JOMAR, ESME, AND MODDIE TO DIFFERENT EQUALLY CROWDED POLICE STATIONS
The SOS Network has uncovered the PNP's malicious intent in the transfer of the 2 Lumad datu and 3 Lumad students —
because the other police stations are crowded, with poor jail conditions, and with some of the other detainees still not tested for COVID-19, even though PRO-7 reasoned that they were transferred to different police stations due to the PRO-7 being full and a COVID-19 health risk.
Cebu City Police Station 1 refused to provide the transfer order for Jomar to SOS Network even though this is a public document. When SOS Network asserted to sign the log book just to document their visit, they were denied, were made to write on a blank sheet of paper instead.