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 CIS NO: 76-H461-77
 TITLE: Human Rights in the Philippines: Report by Amnesty International.
 SOURCE: Committee on International Relations. House
 DOC TYPE: Hearing                   COLLATION: v+29 p.
 DATE: Sept. 15, 1976
 CONGRESS-SESSION: 94-2              SUDOC: Y4.In8/16:H88/7
 ITEM NO: 1017
 MC ENTRY NO: 77-2515

 Hearing before the Subcom on International Organizations to consider
 Amnesty International Mission to the Philippines report and recommendations
 concerning the indefinite detention and torture of political prisoners under
 Philippines martial law. Report (excerpt and summary, p. 21-29) is based on
 two-week fact finding trip, Nov. 22-Dec. 5, 1975.
 CONTENT NOTATION: Human rights in Philippines
 DESCRIPTORS (and special content notations): SUBCOM ON HUMAN RIGHTS AND
     INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS. HOUSE; CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY; CIVIL
     LIBERTIES; POLITICAL PRISONERS (Philippines' political prisoners'
     treatment); PHILIPPINES; AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL

 76-H461-77 TESTIMONY NO: 1         Sept. 15, 1976 p. 2-19
 WITNESSES (and witness notations):
     JONES, THOMAS C., JR. (member, Amnesty Intl Mission to the
        Philippines)
 STATEMENT AND DISCUSSION: Charged gross violations of human rights in
     Philippines; examples of widespread torture of political prisoners;
     undermining effects of martial law on judicial system; general lack of
     official and unofficial Government response to Mission's report and
     recommendations.
 CONTENT NOTATION: Human rights in the Philippines
 DESCRIPTORS: MARTIAL LAW