The Armed Forces of the Philippines
A statement from the AFP public affairs office also said
military units have also been ordered “to ensure the life, liberty and
security” of the Isabela-based Salucon “and her immediate family members.”
On March 12, the appellate court’s sixth
division granted Salucon’s petition for a writ of habeas data after she
alleged military and police personnel placed her under surveillance and harassed
her on several occasions in March last year after she handled the cases of
several persons accused of being New People’s Army members.
Aside from granting the writ, the CA also ordered the
military to produce for possible destruction all information, records,
photographs and dossiers related to their surveillance on the petitioner.
However, the court dismissed the cases against President
Benigno Aquino III, Defense Secretary Voltaire Gazmin and resigned Philippine
National Police chief Alan Purisima, who were named respondents in Salucon’s
petition.
The writ of habeas data is a remedy available to any person
whose right to privacy, liberty or security is violated or threatened by an
unlawful act or omission of a public official or employee, or of a private
individual or entity engaged in the gathering, collecting or storing of data or
information about the person, family, home and correspondence of the aggrieved
party.
The AFP said it had filed a motion for reconsideration,
through the Office of the Solicitor General, of the CA resolution granting the
writ of habeas data to Salucon.
http://www.interaksyon.com/article/107800/afp-contests-ca-writ-of-habeas-data-but-vows-to-protect-rights-lawyer-probe-alleged-threats
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