Bangkok Post
November 16, 2010
Human Rights Watch Tuesday urged Middle Eastern states to protect migrant workers after two Sri Lankan maids returned from the region with shocking stories of torture by their employers.
The New York-based rights group said accusations by three Sri Lankan maids that they were forced to swallow nails or had nails driven into their bodies highlighted a broad pattern of abuse of migrant domestic workers.
"The wanton brutality alleged in these cases is shocking, but reports of physical abuse, sexual abuse, and labour exploitation such as non-payment of wages are nothing new," said Nisha Varia, HRW's senior women?s rights researcher.
"The governments of Jordan, Kuwait, and Saudi Arabia need to show they take such allegations seriously, and create accessible ways for domestic workers to report abuse as soon as it happens."
In August, a Sri Lankan housemaid gained worldwide attention after she complained that her Saudi employer drove 24 nails into her arms, legs and forehead as punishment.
Most of them were removed by surgeons at Sri Lanka's Kamburupitiya hospital.
The Saudi government and private sector officials in Riyadh have questioned the credibility of the woman's allegations.
Surgeons on Monday removed the last five wire nails from another Sri Lankan housemaid who accused her Kuwaiti employer of hammering 14 nails into her body when she asked for her salary after working for six months.
The authorities in Colombo are investigating another claim from a third Sri Lankan maid in Jordan who has alleged that she was forced to swallow six nails when she demanded her salary.
Sri Lanka's Foreign Employment Bureau chief, Kingsley Ranawaka, said they were awaiting a medical report to decide on action regarding the woman who is said to have been admitted to a hospital in Amman.
Some 1.8 million Sri Lankans are employed abroad, of whom 70 percent are women. Most work as housemaids in the Middle East while smaller numbers work in Singapore and Hong Kong, seeking higher salaries than they would get at home.
http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/asia/206695/nail-torture-shows-maid-abuse-in-mideast-hrw
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Tuesday, November 16, 2010
Friday, August 27, 2010
Nails Removed from tortured Sri Lankan Maid
BBC
August 27, 2010
Doctors have removed 13 nails and five needles from a Sri Lankan housemaid who said her employer in Saudi Arabia hammered them into her body.
LP Ariyawathie, 49, told staff at Kamburupitiya Hospital her employer inflicted the injuries as a punishment.
X-rays showed that there were 24 nails and needles in her body. Doctors said those remaining inside her body posed no immediate threat to her life.
The nails were up to 2in (5cm) long, a hospital official said.
"The surgery is successful and she is recovering now," Dr Satharasinghe said, according to news agency Associated Press.
Ms Ariyawathie, a mother of three, underwent a three-hour procedure.
Doctors said they would carry out further surgery later to remove the remaining nails.
'Deeply traumatised'
Ms Ariyawathie travelled to Saudi Arabia in March to become a housemaid.
Last week, she flew back to Sri Lanka and was admitted to hospital in the south of the island, where she told doctors she had undergone abuse for more than a month.
The doctors found 24 metal pieces in her legs and hands.
She could not sit down or walk properly, doctors said.
They said Ms Ariyawathie was deeply traumatised and unable to give full details of her experience.
Meanwhile, Sri Lankan authorities have launched an investigation.
"We have launched a strong protest with the Saudi government through the external affairs minister, but there has been no response yet," Kingsley Ranawaka, chairman of Bureau for Foreign Employment, told the BBC.
Around 1.8 million Sri Lankans are employed abroad, 70% of whom are women.
Most work as housemaids in the Middle East, while smaller numbers work in Singapore and Hong Kong.
August 27, 2010
Doctors have removed 13 nails and five needles from a Sri Lankan housemaid who said her employer in Saudi Arabia hammered them into her body.
LP Ariyawathie, 49, told staff at Kamburupitiya Hospital her employer inflicted the injuries as a punishment.
X-rays showed that there were 24 nails and needles in her body. Doctors said those remaining inside her body posed no immediate threat to her life.
The nails were up to 2in (5cm) long, a hospital official said.
"The surgery is successful and she is recovering now," Dr Satharasinghe said, according to news agency Associated Press.
Ms Ariyawathie, a mother of three, underwent a three-hour procedure.
Doctors said they would carry out further surgery later to remove the remaining nails.
'Deeply traumatised'
Ms Ariyawathie travelled to Saudi Arabia in March to become a housemaid.
Last week, she flew back to Sri Lanka and was admitted to hospital in the south of the island, where she told doctors she had undergone abuse for more than a month.
The doctors found 24 metal pieces in her legs and hands.
She could not sit down or walk properly, doctors said.
They said Ms Ariyawathie was deeply traumatised and unable to give full details of her experience.
Meanwhile, Sri Lankan authorities have launched an investigation.
"We have launched a strong protest with the Saudi government through the external affairs minister, but there has been no response yet," Kingsley Ranawaka, chairman of Bureau for Foreign Employment, told the BBC.
Around 1.8 million Sri Lankans are employed abroad, 70% of whom are women.
Most work as housemaids in the Middle East, while smaller numbers work in Singapore and Hong Kong.
Friday, January 22, 2010
Charges against Tanenglians continue to pile up
ANOTHER criminal case has been filed by the Department of Justice against businessman Mariano Tanenglian, his wife, and their two children based on the complaint of another former housemaid.
The DOJ Task Force on Women and Children found probable cause against Tanenglian, wife Aleta and children Fayette and Maximillian on the nine counts of child abuse, human trafficking, kidnapping, and serious illegal detention charges filed by Aljane Bacanto.
State prosecutors gave weight to the direct and positive testimony of Bacanto who testified that she was only 16 when employed by the Tanenglians at their residence in Quezon City. The DOJ panel found merit in the human trafficking charges, citing the existence of an important aspect of the crime: slavery.
“(Bacanto’s) employment was with the intention to enslave and to extract force labor/ service from the complainant. These intentions are inferred from the acts of respondents when they, in fact, detained complainant from the time she was employed and subjected her to incredibly long hours of work for two years and seven months without salary and under constant conditions of cruelty, maltreatment and treat,” the DOJ resolution said.
“Respondents who are private individuals illegally deprived complainant of her libery by not allowing her to leave their premises from the time of her employment in May 2006 up to January 2009 coupled with threat that she made an attempt to leave, something of great harm will happen to her. This detention, needless to state, is a deprivation of complainant’s liberty,” the panel said.
The DOJ, however, dismissed the charge of frustrated homicide against the Tanenglians.
Bacanto said that during her three-year stay at the Tanenglians, she suffered extreme cruelty and physical abuse and was subjected to conditions prejudicial to her normal development as a child. She said the Tanenglians barred her from going out of the house and calling anybody of the phone. She said her letters to her family in Tacloban were dictated by Fayette who forbade her to tell her parents of her situation.
On top of that, she never received any salary or was given, along with the other housemaids, enough food.
Bacanto said she was given food when her employers were satisfied with her work. She said the refrigerators in the house house were padlocked and there were many instances when she was nothing to east for three consecutive days. At one point, shje said she was forced to eat dog food to survive, She said hunger prompted her and the other maids to try o steal food but they caught several times and mauled by their employers.
She was rescued from the Tanenglian household in January 2009 by social workers and law enforces.
Last week, the DOJ filed similar criminal charges against the Tanenglians based on the complaint of another maid, Mary Jane Sollano, who was rescued by authorities seven months after Bacanto.
Bacanto’s testimony supported that of Sollano’s. Bacanto was the one who reported their ordeal to Sollano’s family after she left Tanenglian’s house, which led to the rescue of the latter.
The DOJ is investigating a similar complaint filed by a third housemaid, Gina Renacia.
Evangeline C. de Vera
Malaya, B2
January 21, 2010
Saturday, January 16, 2010
Tanenglians charged!
GOVERNMENT prosecutors yesterday filed criminal charges against billionaire Mariano Tanenglian, his wife and two children before the Quezon City Regional Trial Court for kidnapping, serious illegal detention and eight counts of child abuse in connection with the alleged maltreatment of a housemaid.
In a 17-page resolution, the Department of Justice Task Force on Women and children Protection accused Tanenglian, his wife, Aleta and children Fayette and Maximillian of allegedly maltreating Mary Jane Sollano 19, in their residence at 30 Biak na Bato St., Quezon City. Kidnapping and trafficking of persons are non-bailable crimes.
Sollano claimed in her complaint that the Tanenglians committed horrible abuses on her that included maltreatment, serious illegal detention, slavery and frustrated homicide.
The DOJ Task Force found that Sollano was only 13 when she was employed as a housemaid by the Tanenglians in 2004.
Sollano said that she was locked up, not allowed to communicate with relatives, and was kicked slapped and suffered various physical abuses even for minor mistakes.
Aleta and Fayette allegedly took nude pictures of the maid while hitting her with an iron bar and thick slippers. In another instance, Fayette allegedly poured hot and water on Solano’s hands when she was caught stealing food, while Maximillian allegedly chained her hands and neck to the point of choking her when she was caught getting food from the refrigerator.
“Within this period, complainant suffered cruelty, physical abuse from the hands of respondents, and had been subjected to a condition prejudicial to her normal development as a child,” the DOJ resolution read.
The DOJ team of investigators also found out that Sollano was illegally deprived of her liberty by the respondents for more than five years. “This detention was coupled with threat that if she made an attempt to leave, something great harm will happen to her,” it added.
People’s Tonight, Page 2
January 15, 2010
In a 17-page resolution, the Department of Justice Task Force on Women and children Protection accused Tanenglian, his wife, Aleta and children Fayette and Maximillian of allegedly maltreating Mary Jane Sollano 19, in their residence at 30 Biak na Bato St., Quezon City. Kidnapping and trafficking of persons are non-bailable crimes.
Sollano claimed in her complaint that the Tanenglians committed horrible abuses on her that included maltreatment, serious illegal detention, slavery and frustrated homicide.
The DOJ Task Force found that Sollano was only 13 when she was employed as a housemaid by the Tanenglians in 2004.
Sollano said that she was locked up, not allowed to communicate with relatives, and was kicked slapped and suffered various physical abuses even for minor mistakes.
Aleta and Fayette allegedly took nude pictures of the maid while hitting her with an iron bar and thick slippers. In another instance, Fayette allegedly poured hot and water on Solano’s hands when she was caught stealing food, while Maximillian allegedly chained her hands and neck to the point of choking her when she was caught getting food from the refrigerator.
“Within this period, complainant suffered cruelty, physical abuse from the hands of respondents, and had been subjected to a condition prejudicial to her normal development as a child,” the DOJ resolution read.
The DOJ team of investigators also found out that Sollano was illegally deprived of her liberty by the respondents for more than five years. “This detention was coupled with threat that if she made an attempt to leave, something great harm will happen to her,” it added.
People’s Tonight, Page 2
January 15, 2010
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
3rd maid files charges against Mariano Tanenglian
A THIRD housemaid from the household of businessman Mariano Tanenglian has filed criminal charges against him and his family before the Department of Justice for illegal detention and serious physical injuries sustained during her 15-year stay with the Tanenglians.
Complainant Gina Renacia accused Tanenglian, his wife Aleta and children Adeline and Junjun of causing her mental and physical abuse since she began working for the family when she was just 15 years old.
Renacia is the third housemaid of the Tanenglians to lodge a complaint before the DOJ, after Mary Jane Sollano and Aljane Bacanto, who were rescued from the Tanenglian house in Quezon City and have filed similar charges earlier.
Tanenglian is the estranged brother of tycoon Lucio Tan.
Based on the information filed by the PNP Women’s Desk, through SPO1 Florence Costanilla, Renacia claimed that during her stay in the Tenglian household, she was repeatedly beaten up, forced to shave her head and slapped. At one point in November 1992, Aleta pressed a hot iron to her back, and she had to undergo treatment at the Philippine General Hospital.
Lawyer Al Parreno, who is the counsel of the three maids, said the victims are now undergoing counseling through Teresita Ang See’s Kaisa Foundation which helps battered women.
Source
Evangeline C. de Vera, Malaya. Published December 7, 2009. Retrieved from
http://www.malaya.com.ph/12072009/metro5.html
Complainant Gina Renacia accused Tanenglian, his wife Aleta and children Adeline and Junjun of causing her mental and physical abuse since she began working for the family when she was just 15 years old.
Renacia is the third housemaid of the Tanenglians to lodge a complaint before the DOJ, after Mary Jane Sollano and Aljane Bacanto, who were rescued from the Tanenglian house in Quezon City and have filed similar charges earlier.
Tanenglian is the estranged brother of tycoon Lucio Tan.
Based on the information filed by the PNP Women’s Desk, through SPO1 Florence Costanilla, Renacia claimed that during her stay in the Tenglian household, she was repeatedly beaten up, forced to shave her head and slapped. At one point in November 1992, Aleta pressed a hot iron to her back, and she had to undergo treatment at the Philippine General Hospital.
Lawyer Al Parreno, who is the counsel of the three maids, said the victims are now undergoing counseling through Teresita Ang See’s Kaisa Foundation which helps battered women.
Source
Evangeline C. de Vera, Malaya. Published December 7, 2009. Retrieved from
http://www.malaya.com.ph/12072009/metro5.html
3rd maid files abuse raps vs Mariano Tanenglian, family
MANILA, Philippines - A third housemaid has filed charges against businessman Mariano Tan and his family before the Department of Justice (DOJ) for allegedly abusing her.
Gina Renacia, 33, accused Tan; his wife, Aleta; and children Maximillian and Fayette for supposed “maltreatment, serious illegal detention, slavery and frustrated homicide.” The Philippine National Police (PNP) endorsed her complaint to the DOJ.
Renacia, according to the complaint, was 15 years old when Tan and his family employed her as a housemaid.
“In November 1992, victim Renacia… suffered physical and mental abuse from the afore-named respondents thereby causing physical and emotional distress upon her person,” stated the complaint signed by Senior Police Officer 1 Florence Costanilla of the PNP Women’s Desk.
Renacia said she was allegedly beaten, forced to shave her head and slapped whenever she did something wrong. She also said that in November 1992, Aleta alleged pressed a hot iron against her back, and she had to be treated at the Philippine General Hospital.
Earlier this year, former housemaids Mary Jane Sollano, 18, and Aljane Bacanto, 19, separately filed similar complaints before the DOJ.
In her affidavit, Bacanto said she was allegedly not allowed to go out of the Tan residence “not even once” in Barangay Siena, Quezon City from May 2006 until she was given permission to go back to her province last February.
Just like Sollano, Bacanto said she was not allowed to call anybody outside the house. She said she was only allowed to write letters to her family in Tacloban, but Fayette reportedly told her what to write.
“They made me a slave, without a salary and enough food,” she said.
Bacanto said she was only given food whenever her employers were satisfied with her job. She said the refrigerators in the house were padlocked and there were many instances when she was not able to eat for three consecutive days.
She said she and her fellow maids were caught stealing food and were harshly punished. She said she was beaten several times by Aleta, Fayette and Maximillian. She said she was even forced to eat dog food just to survive.
Sollano, who was rescued last Aug. 10 after Bacanto told Sollano’s parents about her plight, told police she suffered “physical and mental abuses” at the hands of the Tan family since she started her employment in July 2004.
Sollano said she and other maids were allegedly “not allowed to use the telephone or cell phone, talk to fellow house helpers, laugh, sit in their (family’s) chairs, look outside the window, watch TV, eat at any time, sleep or rest before our tasks were completed, and read any material or write.”
She said she tried to escape by asking permission to go to their home province of Zamboanga del Sur but her employers forbade her, saying she had to finish her two-year contract.
When her contract ended in 2006, Aleta reportedly called a lawyer and told Sollano to sign a new contract without reading its contents. She only learned later on that she signed another contract for another two years of service with the Tans.
Sollano said Aleta and Fayette once brought her to a room took nude photos of her. “When they were not yet satisfied, they would hit me with steel (pipes) or slippers, and threaten me that they would show my nude photos to other people or bring me to a nightclub owned by Ate Aleta’s friend,” Sollano said.
She said Fayette once poured hot water on her hands after they caught her eating their food, and that they chained her hands and neck in such a way that she found it difficult to breathe.
Sollano’s alleged ordeal ended when she was rescued by Quezon City police officers and personnel from the Commission on Human Rights and the Department of Social Welfare and Development last Aug. 10.
Sollano and her parents had a tearful reunion after five years without any contact.
When sought for a reaction, Tan’s camp said the allegations were “part of a bigger picture.” Tan is the estranged brother of businessman Lucio Tan.
“As we all know somebody is trying to stop our client from testifying at the Sandiganbayan,” Tan’s lawyer, Raymund Quiroz, said. He added that they will answer all charges once they receive a copy of the complaint.
Source:
Edu Punay, The Philippine Star. Published December 07, 2009. Retrieved from
http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx?articleId=530150&publicationSubCategoryId=65
Gina Renacia, 33, accused Tan; his wife, Aleta; and children Maximillian and Fayette for supposed “maltreatment, serious illegal detention, slavery and frustrated homicide.” The Philippine National Police (PNP) endorsed her complaint to the DOJ.
Renacia, according to the complaint, was 15 years old when Tan and his family employed her as a housemaid.
“In November 1992, victim Renacia… suffered physical and mental abuse from the afore-named respondents thereby causing physical and emotional distress upon her person,” stated the complaint signed by Senior Police Officer 1 Florence Costanilla of the PNP Women’s Desk.
Renacia said she was allegedly beaten, forced to shave her head and slapped whenever she did something wrong. She also said that in November 1992, Aleta alleged pressed a hot iron against her back, and she had to be treated at the Philippine General Hospital.
Earlier this year, former housemaids Mary Jane Sollano, 18, and Aljane Bacanto, 19, separately filed similar complaints before the DOJ.
In her affidavit, Bacanto said she was allegedly not allowed to go out of the Tan residence “not even once” in Barangay Siena, Quezon City from May 2006 until she was given permission to go back to her province last February.
Just like Sollano, Bacanto said she was not allowed to call anybody outside the house. She said she was only allowed to write letters to her family in Tacloban, but Fayette reportedly told her what to write.
“They made me a slave, without a salary and enough food,” she said.
Bacanto said she was only given food whenever her employers were satisfied with her job. She said the refrigerators in the house were padlocked and there were many instances when she was not able to eat for three consecutive days.
She said she and her fellow maids were caught stealing food and were harshly punished. She said she was beaten several times by Aleta, Fayette and Maximillian. She said she was even forced to eat dog food just to survive.
Sollano, who was rescued last Aug. 10 after Bacanto told Sollano’s parents about her plight, told police she suffered “physical and mental abuses” at the hands of the Tan family since she started her employment in July 2004.
Sollano said she and other maids were allegedly “not allowed to use the telephone or cell phone, talk to fellow house helpers, laugh, sit in their (family’s) chairs, look outside the window, watch TV, eat at any time, sleep or rest before our tasks were completed, and read any material or write.”
She said she tried to escape by asking permission to go to their home province of Zamboanga del Sur but her employers forbade her, saying she had to finish her two-year contract.
When her contract ended in 2006, Aleta reportedly called a lawyer and told Sollano to sign a new contract without reading its contents. She only learned later on that she signed another contract for another two years of service with the Tans.
Sollano said Aleta and Fayette once brought her to a room took nude photos of her. “When they were not yet satisfied, they would hit me with steel (pipes) or slippers, and threaten me that they would show my nude photos to other people or bring me to a nightclub owned by Ate Aleta’s friend,” Sollano said.
She said Fayette once poured hot water on her hands after they caught her eating their food, and that they chained her hands and neck in such a way that she found it difficult to breathe.
Sollano’s alleged ordeal ended when she was rescued by Quezon City police officers and personnel from the Commission on Human Rights and the Department of Social Welfare and Development last Aug. 10.
Sollano and her parents had a tearful reunion after five years without any contact.
When sought for a reaction, Tan’s camp said the allegations were “part of a bigger picture.” Tan is the estranged brother of businessman Lucio Tan.
“As we all know somebody is trying to stop our client from testifying at the Sandiganbayan,” Tan’s lawyer, Raymund Quiroz, said. He added that they will answer all charges once they receive a copy of the complaint.
Source:
Edu Punay, The Philippine Star. Published December 07, 2009. Retrieved from
http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx?articleId=530150&publicationSubCategoryId=65
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
Tsinoy iimbestigahan ng CHR
Magsasagawa ng hiwalay na imbestigasyon ang Commission on Human Rights laban sa pamilyang Tsinoy na sinampahan ng kaso ng katulong na umano’y inalipin at minaltrato ng mga ito.
Ito ang nabatid kahapon ng pahayagang ito mula sa pamilya ng biktimang si Mary Jane Sollano, 18, tubong Zamboanga del Sur at naninirahan sa panulukan ng Biak na Bato at Dapitan Sts., Brgy. Siena, Quezon City.
Gagawin umano ito ng CHR batay sa kahilingan ng pamilya Sollano na mapalakas ang sumbong ng biktima laban kina Mariano, Aleta, Maximillian at Fayette Tanenglian at iba pa.
Nabatid na nakasampa na sa Department of Justice ang kasong pang-aalipin, pangmamaltrato, serious illegal detention at frustrated homicide laban sa mga Tanenglian sa tulong ng pulisya.
Ipinaliwanag ng pamilya Sollano ng magiging bantay nila ang CHR laban sa posibleng paggamit ng Tanenglian ng kanilang impluwensiya sa mga kinauukulan na may hawak sa kaso ng biktima.
Matatandaang nagging katulong si Mary Jane ng mga Tanenglian ng kung ilang taon simula noong 13 anyos pa lang siya at nasagip lang ito kamakailan ng pinagsanib na puwersa ng pulisya, CHR at Department of Social Welfare and Development.
Napag-alaman na habang nagsisilbing kasambahay ang biktima, nakaranas siya ng mga pagmamalupit at pananakit hanggang halos mamatay siya, pagkakadena, paggutom, pagbabawal sa kanya na makipag-ugnayan sa pamilya, pagkulong at pambabastos gaya ng pagkuha ng litrato sa kanya habang nagtatrabaho ng nakahubo’t hubad.
Wala pa umanong nakatitiyak kung ano ang kahihinatnan ng naturang kaso sa DOJ subalit hangad ng pamilya Sollano na susulong sa hukuman ang kaso upang makamit nila ang katarungan.
Source:
Remate
Setyembre 1, 2009
Page 5
Ito ang nabatid kahapon ng pahayagang ito mula sa pamilya ng biktimang si Mary Jane Sollano, 18, tubong Zamboanga del Sur at naninirahan sa panulukan ng Biak na Bato at Dapitan Sts., Brgy. Siena, Quezon City.
Gagawin umano ito ng CHR batay sa kahilingan ng pamilya Sollano na mapalakas ang sumbong ng biktima laban kina Mariano, Aleta, Maximillian at Fayette Tanenglian at iba pa.
Nabatid na nakasampa na sa Department of Justice ang kasong pang-aalipin, pangmamaltrato, serious illegal detention at frustrated homicide laban sa mga Tanenglian sa tulong ng pulisya.
Ipinaliwanag ng pamilya Sollano ng magiging bantay nila ang CHR laban sa posibleng paggamit ng Tanenglian ng kanilang impluwensiya sa mga kinauukulan na may hawak sa kaso ng biktima.
Matatandaang nagging katulong si Mary Jane ng mga Tanenglian ng kung ilang taon simula noong 13 anyos pa lang siya at nasagip lang ito kamakailan ng pinagsanib na puwersa ng pulisya, CHR at Department of Social Welfare and Development.
Napag-alaman na habang nagsisilbing kasambahay ang biktima, nakaranas siya ng mga pagmamalupit at pananakit hanggang halos mamatay siya, pagkakadena, paggutom, pagbabawal sa kanya na makipag-ugnayan sa pamilya, pagkulong at pambabastos gaya ng pagkuha ng litrato sa kanya habang nagtatrabaho ng nakahubo’t hubad.
Wala pa umanong nakatitiyak kung ano ang kahihinatnan ng naturang kaso sa DOJ subalit hangad ng pamilya Sollano na susulong sa hukuman ang kaso upang makamit nila ang katarungan.
Source:
Remate
Setyembre 1, 2009
Page 5
HDO vs nang-aabuso sa kasambahay pinag-aaralan
Magsasagawa ang Commission on Human Rights (CHR) ng masusing imbestigasyon ukol sa umano’y pisikal at mental na pang-aabuso ng Chinese billionaire sa kanyang kasambahay.
Kasabay ng imbestigasyon ay pag-aaralan ng CHR kung hihilingin sa Bureau of Immigration (BI) na maglabas ito ng hold-departure order laban kay Mariano Tanenglian, ayon kay Atty. Carmelita Rosete, pinuno ng CHR Protection and Monitoring Division.
Ayon kay Rosete, sinisilip ng CHR ang anggulong paglabag sa karapatang pambata at child trafficking sa kaso ni Mary Jane Sollano, na nailigtas sa tahanan ni Tanenglian ng pinagsanib na puwersa ng CHR, Department of Social Welfare and Development at Quezon City Police District.
Nagsampa na si Sollano ng kasong kriminal na maltreatment, serious illegal detention, slavery at frustrated homicide sa Department of Justice (DOJ) laban kay Tanenglian, sa asawa at mga anak.
Kasama sa complaint ng bikitma ang affidavits mula sa kapulisan, Commission on Human Rights, Department of Social Welfare and Development at iba pang tao na naroon nang iligtas si Sollano.
Source:
Abante Tonite
September 1, 2009
Page 8
Kasabay ng imbestigasyon ay pag-aaralan ng CHR kung hihilingin sa Bureau of Immigration (BI) na maglabas ito ng hold-departure order laban kay Mariano Tanenglian, ayon kay Atty. Carmelita Rosete, pinuno ng CHR Protection and Monitoring Division.
Ayon kay Rosete, sinisilip ng CHR ang anggulong paglabag sa karapatang pambata at child trafficking sa kaso ni Mary Jane Sollano, na nailigtas sa tahanan ni Tanenglian ng pinagsanib na puwersa ng CHR, Department of Social Welfare and Development at Quezon City Police District.
Nagsampa na si Sollano ng kasong kriminal na maltreatment, serious illegal detention, slavery at frustrated homicide sa Department of Justice (DOJ) laban kay Tanenglian, sa asawa at mga anak.
Kasama sa complaint ng bikitma ang affidavits mula sa kapulisan, Commission on Human Rights, Department of Social Welfare and Development at iba pang tao na naroon nang iligtas si Sollano.
Source:
Abante Tonite
September 1, 2009
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