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Justice and the courts in the Philippines (a thread)
The court can allow you to go and visit a dentist.
The court can allow a detainee to spend Christmas at home.
The court can even allow a detainee to spend Christmas and New Year at home.
The court can allow a detainee to attend a son’s graduation
A court can also allow a detainee to visit his mother once, twice and thrice.
The court could allow a detainee to attend a birthday party.
The court could allow a detainee, a principal accused in a massacre, to attend his daughter’s wedding “on humanitarian grounds”.
The court can allow a detainee to visit his ailing father in the hospital not once, not twice, not thrice. Four times.
The court can also let a detainee visit his son in the hospital.
The court can also find ways for you to be free.
A president can also pardon a convict even without applying for it.
A court can separate a mother and her baby daughter https://mb.com.ph/2020/08/13/political-prisoner-separated-from-baby-after-manila-court-denies-appeal/
The court can ignore the same mother’s plea to visit her daughter in the ICU https://www.rappler.com/nation/reina-mae-nasino-motion-furlough-visit-baby-hospital
The court could change its mind: shorten a furlough from 3 days to 6 hours. https://www.rappler.com/nation/reina-mae-nasino-motion-furlough-visit-baby-hospital
The court could believe law enforcers claims they have “no personnel” to guard the mother in her short furlough.
But 47 escorts turn out to guard the mother in her three-hour visit. No offer of privacy whatsoever.
But 47 escorts turn out to guard the mother in her three-hour visit. No offer of privacy whatsoever.
Justice for Baby River and her mother Ina Nasino!
Free all political prisoners!
Justice for all!
Free all political prisoners!
Justice for all!
