Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, February 7) — Shortly after meeting with a United Nations’ (UN) special rapporteur on Tuesday, Justice Secretary Jesus Crispin Remulla said his department will intensify forensic efforts in dealing with “wrongful and untimely deaths” in the country.
\”These are the things that are being neglected in the past,\” Remulla said in a press briefing. \”We want to ensure that our legal system is up to date and up to standards of the world.\”
Remulla met with Dr. Morris Tidball-Binz, UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary, or arbitrary executions.
In November 2022, the DOJ chief invited Tidball-Binz to conduct \” capacity building\” on forensic pathologists in the country.
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Remulla said they have not talked about extrajudicial killings (EJKs) in the country but discussed “certain trends” that the agency is following.
\”No. We didn’t discuss these cases but we discussed certain trends we’re following, like how we are dealing with things that were left to us,\” he said.
The DOJ said it plans to create a class for 35 medical doctors together with prosecutors plus 14 to 21 days of seminar twice a year, to enhance country’s capacity on forensic pathology.
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Five years after the death of Kian Delos Santos, a 17-year-old victim of EJK, Dr. Raquel Fortun, the country’s foremost forensic pathologist, reported inconsistencies in the official autopsy report.
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Forensic pathologist Dr. Raquel Fortun shares her thoughts on the inconsistencies in the official autopsy reports done on Kian delos Santos, a student murdered by police during an anti-drug operation in 2017. | LIVE https://t.co/kRDmT7UILa pic.twitter.com/WMEMLKZtIU
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