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Fider-Reyes has a ‘robust educational background specializing in kids’s rights,’ says the CHR
MANILA, Philippines – A decrease courtroom choose was appointed Fee on Human Rights (CHR) commissioner, lastly finishing the management of the impartial physique tasked to probe abuses of presidency brokers.
The CHR introduced Saturday, November 16, that Decide Amifaith Fider-Reyes has been appointed to the CHR en banc. President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. made this appointment fairly late, as a result of the CHR en banc was incomplete for the primary two years in his presidency.
The CHR en banc is a five-person panel made up of the chairperson and 4 commissioners. Fider-Reyes is among the two CHR commissioners who come from the judiciary, the primary one being retired Court docket of Appeals (CA) justice Monina Arevalo Zenarosa.
Chairperson Richard Palpal-latoc’s background is prosecutorial and a former Malacañang deputy govt secretary for authorized affairs. Commissioner Beda Epres got here from the Workplace of the Ombudsman, and Commissioner Faydah Dumarpa was a legislative officer in each homes of Congress.
The CHR mentioned Fider-Reyes has “profound understanding of the intricacies of making use of and decoding the legislation, complemented by her robust educational background specializing in kids’s rights.”
“The Fee is assured that Commissioner Fider-Reyes’s multidisciplinary background ensures a dynamic method to addressing the complicated challenges of human rights within the Philippines, notably in safeguarding the rights of susceptible, deprived, and marginalized sectors,” mentioned the CHR on Saturday.
Fider-Reyes dealt with the second cyber libel case in opposition to Rappler CEO, and Nobeal Laureate, Maria Ressa, which was filed by the identical businessman within the first case that resulted in her conviction in Manila, pending now on the Supreme Court docket. Fider-Reyes was a choose in Makati again then, and she or he ultimately inhibited from the case citing threatening emails despatched to her.
Fider-Reyes was additionally assigned choose in Mabalacat, Pampanga, the place she convicted serial pedophile David Timothy Deakin of kid pornography in 2019. In the identical judgment, she acquitted Deakin of cybersex costs. Deakin was sentenced to 2 years in Fider-Reyes’ verdict. In 2020, Deakin once more figured in a toddler abuse case, and was discovered responsible by one other Pampanga choose of large-scale certified trafficking.
In Pampanga, Fider-Reyes additionally issued the warrant of arrest in opposition to Globe Asiatique founder Delfin Lee for syndicated estafa over the socialized housing rip-off scandal. – Rappler.com
