The Supreme Court (SC) was asked on Monday (September 23) to issue a writ of habeas corpus and order the release of a student activist who was allegedly arrested and detained by the military since September 14 on suspicion of being a member of the New People’s Army (NPA).
In a petition filed by her father Arnulfo R. Pacalda, the SC was told that his daughter Alexandrea P. Pacalda was “illegally arrested and tortured, and that the respondents illegally restrained her liberty and causing her continued detention without any legal cause for which she is entitled to the privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus….”
A Writ of Habeas Corpus is an order “directing a person detaining another and commanding the former to produce the body of the latter at a designated time and place” It “extends to all cases of illegal or arbitrary detention by which any person is deprived of his liberty or by which the rightful custody of any person is withheld from the person entitled thereto.”
He said Alexandrea was arrested without a warrant at about 6 p.m. on September 14 in Barangay Magsaysay, Gen. Luna, Quezon province by six armed men in civilian clothing, who were later identified to be members of the 85th Infantry Battalion of the Philippine Army. Later, he said, her daughter was forced to sign an affidavit that she surrendered voluntarily and on assurance that she would be released from detention.
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