SC clears Lacson, others of martial law tortures
03/28/2012The Supreme Court (SC) upheld yesterday a 2003 ruling of the Court of Ap-peals (CA) reversing the award for damages against Sen. Panfilo “Ping” Lacson and several others stemming from alleged torture incidents blamed on security officials during the martial law period.
The SC’s Third Di-vision through Associate Justice Jose Mendoza said the CA acted correctly when it reversed the findings of the Quezon City Regional Trial Court (RTC) in 1993 that Lacson, the late Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) Chief of Staff Fabian Ver and several others should pay damages to suspected subversives they allegedly arrested and tortured at the height of martial rule under former President Ferdinand Marcos.
The SC said Lacson, Ver with Colonels Fidel Singson; Rolando Abadilla; Gerardo Lantoria and Galileo Kintanar; Maj. Rodolfo Aguinaldo; 1Lt. Pedro Tango and M/Sgt. Bienvenido Balaba were deprived of procedural due process when they were ordered by the Quezon City RTC to pay damages without giving them the chance to give their side..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/headlines/20120328hea6.html
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