A Call For Justice and Whereabouts of A Community Healthworker Suddenly Arrested

Philippines – The Free Legal Assistance Group is requesting to give where police took Ma. Natividad Castro, a community health worker  captured on abducting and significant unlawful detainment charges.

In a proclamation that Castro was most recently seen Friday by family members at the Philippine National Police knowledge office in Camp Crame in Quezon City. Along with this, it’s legal counselors, Castro’s sister and another legal advisor who is a companion of their family were not permitted admittance to the specialist who was apparently brought and confined at Camp Crame following her capture at her home in San Juan.

Upon request, cops from the Intelligence Group informed FLAG that Dr. Castro was no longer at Camp Crame as she was probably ‘brought to the air terminal’ to be ‘conveyed to the court’ in Butuan City. It added that Castro’s kinfolk went to the air terminal yet couldn’t see her there as the trip to Butuan took off with no affirmation that the specialist was installed.

All through the entire evening and proceeding to the present, none of her family members or legal counselors have had the option to get close enough to Dr. Castro and no authority affirmation from her detainers, the PNP, has been made with respect to her whereabouts.

Notwithstanding her being avoided family and legal counselors, FLAG said police have additionally would not give them duplicates of the warrant of capture, reports and archives connected with Castro’s capture and confinement.

It added that Castro was likewise denied her hypertension and diabetes prescriptions as police would not allow her sister to bring her drugs and test units. The legal advisors’ gathering is requesting the PNP, through its boss, to illuminate them and Castro’s family regarding her whereabouts, present her and award admittance to them and all others she might demand inside 24 hours, as per RA 7438 and RA 10353, any other way proper crook and authoritative suits will be recorded.

It is likewise intense that Castro be given clinical and mental medical services by a specialist of her decision, as per Section 12 of RA 9745. It likewise requests an authority examination recognizing every one of those liable for denying Castro’s family members and legal counselors admittance to her and for the PNP to present a report on the move they have made inside 48 hours.

The PNP has asserted that Castro is an individual from the Communist Party of the Philippines’ focal advisory group and top of its public wellbeing agency situated in Barangay Libertad in Butuan City. Consequently, Caraga police said Castro was supposedly engaged with the capturing of an individual from the CAFGU Active Auxiliary in Sibagat, Agusan del Sur on Dec. 29, 2018. Morever, Castro’s sibling, Jun, said his sister is certainly not a criminal however a wellbeing specialist who set up local area wellbeing focuses and programs in Mindanao