Political prisoner Eduardo Serrano holds up a clenched fist as he is taken back to the PNP Custodial Center in Camp Crame. (photo by Bernard Testa, InterAksyon.com)
The rebellion case against a political prisoner who has been detained for 11 years was further delayed Wednesday over a literal “identity crisis.”
InterAksyon.com came upon Eduardo Serrano just as he was being taken back to the Philippine National Police Custodial Center in Camp Crame on orders of the Quezon City regional trial court.
Jun Zamora of the human rights group Karapatan, which has been monitoring Serrano’s case, explained that his arraignment had been deferred to September 16 to allow the Court of Appeals to establish the political prisoner’s real identity.
Serrano, who human rights activists maintain is a consultant of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines and thus supposedly protected from arrest and prosecution under the Joint Agreement on Security and Immunity Guarantees, was arrested in May 2004.
However, when the military presented him to media, he was introduced as Rogelio Villanueva, supposedly a New People’s Army member.
http://www.interaksyon.com/article/116664/jailed-for-11-years-political-prisoners-rebellion-case-stalled-by-identity-crisis
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