<div class="gmail_quote">From: <b class="gmail_sendername">CHD ManCom</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:chdmancom@gmail.com">chdmancom@gmail.com</a>></span><br><br><br><p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%">Media Release</span></u></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%">November 5,
2010</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%"><br></span></p>

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<span>    </span>Dr. Julie Caguiat, S</span></b><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">pokesperson, 0909</span></b><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">-</span></b><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">1133038</span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span>                            </span>Philip Paraan, Media Officer, 0919-4861580</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:'Arial Black', sans-serif"><span style="font-size:xx-large">Morong 43 group to P-Noy: do the right thing now</span><font size="4"><span style="font-size:12pt"></span></font></span></p>


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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://freethehealthworkers.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Free the 43 Health Workers! Alliance</a> trooped to Malacañang again today to seek a dialogue
with the President himself to order the release of the Morong 43 following his
declaration that evidences against the health workers were wrongly gotten.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%"><br></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%">Relatives,
supporters, and representatives from the health sector once again knocked on
the doors of the Palace to ask the President to stop dilly-dallying with the
case and let justice commence by withdrawing all cases against the 43.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%"><br></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%">“We will not
tire on knocking on the doors of the President’s office until he hears our
plea.<span>  </span>Every day that the health workers
spend in jail is a day of injustice,” Dr. Julie P. Caguiat said.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%"><br></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%">It is very
ironic that as President Aquino joins other world leaders in calling for the
release of Aung San Suu Kyi, a pro-democracy political icon that sought to
counter the military junta in Myanmar, he is numb on the continuing human rights
violations reeking in his very country, the group said.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%"><br></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%">She added
that Malacañang’s lack of time frame to concretely act on the case is very
disappointing.<span>  </span>“Mr. Aquino should walk
the talk and not limit himself to lip service.<span> 
</span>If indeed he wants to correct the errors committed against the 43, what
or who is holding him from acting on the case immediately?” Dr. Caguiat
expressed.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%"><br></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%">Ordering the
withdrawal of all cases against the Morong 43 is within the President’s authority,
the group said.<span>  </span>They added that by doing
so, the courts can consequently order for the detainees’ release.<span>  </span>“By freeing the Morong 43 and all political
prisoners in the country, President Aquino can prove that he is indeed
different from his predecessor Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo,” the group concluded.##</span></p>
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