‘Freed Naty Castro, the doctor who treated social ills’
‘Freed Naty Castro, the doctor who treated social ills’
By JAMES ANDREW BUATES
Bulatlat.com
MANILA — Recently-freed community doctor Naty Castro has spent more than two decades in the communities of Northeastern Mindanao helping those in need. But why would the government want the likes of her to be put behind bars?
In a March 25 decision, an Agusan del Sur court junked the kidnapping charge against Castro, who is the secretary general of Karapatan – Caraga. The court found it “offensive to due process” that a preliminary investigation was done without a subpoena. Either intentional or not, “the same produces a serious effect repugnant to respondent’s right to liberty.”
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