Karapatan
raised objections against an ongoing scheme by the Department of National
Defense, through the Bureau of Jail and Management and Penology (BJMP)
officials, to disperse political prisoners and transfer them to different
detention facilities outside of Metro Manila. Calling the plan “surreptitious
and detrimental to the long-term health and well-being of political prisoners,”
Karapatan said this is part of the military’s whole-of-nation approach (WONA)
in jails.
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