Reading Guide: Torture, Disappearances, and Extrajudicial Killings

Torture

Convention Against Torture and Other Inhumane and Degrading Treatment and
Punishment

Republic Act 9745

Public Committee against Torture in Israel v. Government of Israel, Supreme Court of

Israel, 1999, H.C. 5100/94

Amnesty International, Philippines: Historic ruling on police torture… (skim only)

Disappearances

International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance

Republic Act No. 10353

Velasquez v. Rodriguez (read both decisions)

Marcellana v. The Philippines (Human Rights Committee)

The Rule on the Writ of Amparo (skim only)

Secretary of National Defense v. Manalo, G. R. No. 180906, Oct. 7, 2008 (skim only)

In re Writ of Amparo and Habeas Data in favor of Melissa C. Roxas, Roxas v. Arroyo,
G.R. No. 189155, Sept. 7, 2010 (skim only)

Navia v. Pardico, G.R. No. 184467, June 19, 2012 (skim only)

Republic v. Cayanan, G.R. No. 181796, Nov. 7, 2017 (skim only)

Extrajudicial Killings

Administrative Order No. 35, s. 2012

Salient Provisions of the Operational Guidelines of A.O. 35, s. 2012

No need to read and will not be discussed in class (suggested only)

Oswaldo R. Ruiz-Chiriboga, Indigenous Corporal Punishments in Ecuador and the

Prohibition of Torture and Ill-Treatments, 28 Am. Univ. Int’l L. R. 975 (2013)
Republic Act No. 7438

Above the Law: Police Torture in the Philippines

Helpbook on Human Rights Issues: Extralegal Killings and Enforced Disappearances