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<b><span><br></span></b></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><b><span><font size="6">FREE THE 43 HEALTH WORKERS ALLIANCE</font><br>
</span></b></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><b><span>AUGUST 19, 2010</span></b></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt">
<b><span><br></span></b></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><b><span>PRESS RELEASE
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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><b><span>Reference</span></b><span></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><b><span style="font-size:10pt">Carlos
Montemayor, RN</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt">, spokesperson, FREE THE 43 HEALTH WORKERS ALLIANCE </span><span></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10pt">Mobile:
0922-4996237</span><span></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><b><span>Group disappointed
by court decision; outraged by the manner of taking back Judilyn Oliveros and
child back to detention</span></b><span></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11pt">The
<b>FREE THE 43 HEALTH WORKERS ALLIANCE</b> was dismayed over the Morong
Regional Trial Court’s decision to deny the motion to release under
recognizance Judilyn Oliveros, one of the Morong 43 who recently gave birth.
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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11pt">Dated
August 16, 2010, the decision penned by Judge Gina Cenat Escoto of Morong RTC
Branch 78 directed the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP) to
immediately return Oliveros to Camp Bagong Diwa in Bicutan yesterday, Aug. 18
at around noontime. <span> </span></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11pt">Carlos
Montemayor, spokesperson of the group said they were disappointed that the
court failed to recognize the weight of their compelling reasons to bring
Oliveros and her child together outside of detention.<span> </span>Meanwhile, they were outraged by the unjust
manner how jail guards and escorts breached hospital protocols and served the
court order.</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11pt">Guarded
with 15-20 guards mostly with long arms, Oliveros was forcibly taken out of the
hospital.<span> </span>She was shackled on the way
out of the PGH until she boarded the security vehicle and was only allowed to
remove her handcuffs inside the said vehicle to hold her child.</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11pt">“We
are disappointed that the rights of mother and child were subverted when they
were brought back to Camp Bagong Diwa.”</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11pt">The
group said that Oliveros thru her counsels sought the “release on recognizance”
as a <span><span>legal remedy</span></span>
on the belief and reasonable hope that the state would recognize the right of
the mother to take care of the child outside the detention cell. </span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11pt">Montemayor
asserted that Oliveros is not a convicted felon and was detained under unlawful
means. Her rights were violated when she was illegally arrested along with her
colleagues, psychologically tortured and continuously tormented by illegal
detention.</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11pt">This
incident is a setback on the respect for human rights; the alliance resolves to
work for the immediate release of Judilyn and her baby. As of today, the
counsels for the Morong 43 are filing a motion for reconsideration.</span></p>
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