Practice question
Officers deliberately subject a detainee to proved statutory torture and defend it solely as necessary during political instability. What does Section6 provide?
- The detainee must first be convicted
- Instability automatically legalizes it
- Only a superior’s agreement is needed
- Political instability cannot justify the prohibited treatment
- All constitutional safeguards are suspended by assertion
Legal references
- Constitution Article III Section 19; RA9745 Sections3-6, punishment and absolute torture prohibition: https://lawphil.net/consti/cons1987.html ; https://lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra2009/ra_9745_2009.html
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