THE Court of Appeals has issued a writ of habeas corpus directing the Philippine National Police and the Armed Forces of the Philippines to bring before it indigenous peoples’ rights activists Gene Roz Jamil “Bazoo” de Jesus and Dexter Capuyan, who were believed to be victims of enforced disappearance.
A writ of habeas corpus “is a writ directed to a person detaining another, commanding the former to produce the body of the latter at a designated time and place.” The CA also directed the National Bureau of Investigation to serve the writ to the respondents, requiring them to appear before it and produce the bodies and persons of de Jesus and Capuyan, if found to be in their custody, during the hearing scheduled today, July 14, 2023.
The families of Capuyan and De Jesus said the duo went missing on April 28 at Golden City Subdivision in Taytay, Rizal.
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