BAYAN Hong Kong, the militant alliance of national democratic people’s organisations of Filipinos in Hong Kong and Macau SARs, said they sympathize with the Hong Kong people, “who in their desire to effect change and reforms are met with brutality and excessive use of force by the Hong Kong police.”
Interior and Local Government Secretary Mar Roxas said only Philippine National Police (PNP) Director General Alan Purisima can answer for the allegations against saying “no one is above the law.”
“The only way to attain peace in Mindanao and perhaps throughout the land is to go federal. This problem of Muslim insurgency in Mindanao needs a federal type of solution,” Duterte said.
The ICRC reported it was assisting families to visit some 300 detainees in Bicutan.
“The Local Government Code is also a national law and it says that we ensure that the inhabitants are well-protected,” said Dayanghirang.