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 —
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.
At the Police Station 3, Moddie said they don’t have proper sleeping materials. And Datu Benito at Police Station 2 only slept on the floor, a clear disregard of the PNP for the elderly's conditions. Adding to that, Station 2 didn’t have a restroom & proper water source.
Esmelito in Police Station 5 was mixed with other detainees who had not been swabbed for COVID-19 and he also expressed that he has a hard time breathing especially because there was no proper ventilation. Datu Segundo at Police Station 4 was also placed in a crowded jail cell.
It’s CLEAR that the COVID-19 protocols were used as an excuse to transfer the 5 illegally detained Lumad. The other stations are just as crowded as PRO-7 & some have worse jail conditions. It’s clear that the PNP has malicious intent in transferring them to different stations.
We once again reiterate that the charges against the Bakwit School 7 are FALSE and were charged against them as a means to attack the Lumad people in asserting to defend their ancestral land and their right to education and self-determination.
THEY SHOULD NOT BE IN PRISON IN THE FIRST PLACE. Now they are experiencing risks to their health because of the PNP's malicious intent!
This recent move by the PNP bares malicious intent consistent with their illegal & violent arrest, to the trumped-up charges against them, to the isolation, harassment, & intimidation of Teacher Roshelle, the restriction of visits for the 7, and now the isolation of the 6 males.
Let us strengthen our call to FREE BAKWIT SCHOOL 7!
#FreeBakwitSchool7
#FreeLumad26
#AbolishNTFELCAC
#JunkTerrorLaw
#FreeBakwitSchool7
#FreeLumad26
#AbolishNTFELCAC
#JunkTerrorLaw
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