Torture in the Philippines & the unfulfilled promise of the 1987 Constitution Vol. 10 – No. 01 Download this issue in PDF format at: http://alrc.asia/article2/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/v10n01.pdf Table of contents A Filipino in Hong Kong: Looking from a territory with protection towards a country without Appendix: Anti-Torture Act of 2009, Republic of the Philippines Appendix: Case analysis: Supreme Court’s rulings on Vizconde and Abadilla cases are contradictory Appendix: Reforms required to protect witnesses in the Philippines Appendix: Torturers and torture chambers in the Philippines Eleven recent cases of torture in the Philippines Overcoming the failure of the 1987 Constitution of the Philippines: Changing the operating structures of an authoritarian regime The limitations of the Philippines’ Anti-Torture Act The role of defence lawyers and prosecutors is to encourage witnesses to speak, not merely to find contradictions: An interview with Bijo Francis on the Maguindanao massacre trial Torture and wrongful prosecution of alleged bombers and assassins
