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Roque: FPRRD to invoke right vs self-incrimination

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Rodrigo Duterte News

War On Drugs,Extrajudicial Killings,House Committee On Human Rights

FORMER president Rodrigo Duterte won’t be attending any bicameral hearing related to his administration’s war on drugs. Instead, he will only be appearing if the court in the Philippines would compel him.

Former presidential spokesperson Harry Roque said that Duterte would not attend the ongoing House Committee on Human Rights inquiry on the war on drugs campaign, invoking his constitutional right against self-incrimination.Roque, however, said the former president is “willing and able” to appear in any court to answer any criminal accusation on extralegal killings related to the drug war campaign.

Citing the Supreme Court rulings on People vs Ayson and Rosete vs. Lim , Roque, a law practitioner, said the right against self-incrimination prescribes an “option of refusal to answer incriminating questions and not a prohibition of inquiry.”He added that every person who gives evidence, whether voluntary or under compulsion of subpoena, in any civil, criminal, or administrative proceeding is accorded the same constitutional right.

 

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