“No one deserves to be treated inhumanely," Human Rights Commissioner Leila De Lima stated regarding the 43 health workers who were arrested for suspected links with the communist New People’s Army (NPA) on Feb. 6 in Morong, Rizal. Although all 43 health workers had shown no traces of physical torture based on medical check-ups conducted by the commission’s doctors, they had been subjected to mental torture through continuous blindfolding and repeated interrogations using scare tactics, such as "making them believe that they can be killed or disappear anytime or that something will happen to their families if they don’t cooperate."
The 43 health workers are restrained of their liberty and without a doubt have experienced mental torture after their arrest. Among the arrested health workers detained at Camp Capinpin are two doctors—Alex Montes and Merry Mia Clamor and both of them had injuries around the eyes and on their wrists. It means that, health workers have not just experienced mental torture but some have experienced physical torture as well; dissimilar from the commission’s doctor medical check-ups concluded.
The sufferings of 43 health workers who allegedly suspicious as NPA are too much. Each family of them desires on their freedom, which health workers deserve.
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