Practice question
A government detention facility refuses every CHR visit on the sole theory that Article XIII gives the Commission no visitorial authority anywhere. Which response directly answers that textual claim?
- The Constitution mentions no detention facilities.
- Only a foreign embassy has visitorial power.
- The CHR may visit only shopping centers.
- Section 18(4) expressly provides visitorial powers over jails, prisons and detention facilities.
- The CHR can exercise any unrelated executive power by visiting.
Legal references
- 1987 Constitution, Article XIII, Sections 13, 15, 16 and 18: https://lawphil.net/consti/cons1987.html
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