By NITZ ARANCON
Correspondent
A DAUGHTER of former Marawi mayor Fahad Salic yesterday cried foul over the way authorities have been treating her father even as a lawyer warned that those holding the Maranao politician could be held liable for violating constitutional rights.
Salic’s daughter Fahmia said authorities have kept her father away from his family members and even deprived him of the right to talk with a lawyer of his choice.
The ex-mayor was arrested at a checkpoint in Villanueva, Misamis Oriental last week on his way to his Xavier Estates house here from Butuan City. He was ordered arrested by Mindanao martial law administrator and Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana for rebellion in connection with the Marawi crisis.
Salic has been in detention at the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) regional office in Camp Camp Evangelista since then.
Fahmia, through lawyer Dale Bryan Mordeno, filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus to force the CIDG and the police to show her father in court.
She also asked the court to make the CIDG explain why it has continued to detain Salic without a clear case.
Mordeno questioned the inquest proceedings ordered by the Department of Justice (DOJ) on Monday.
“It has been five days since mayor Salic’s arrest in Villanueva. Ayha pa siya ghipasaka-an sa kaso. Supak kini sa basic rights,” Mordeno said.
He said the Constitution is very clear that under martial law, a citizen can only be detained for three days, and if no case has been filed against him during the period, he has to be released.
Mordeno said Salic was being held incommunicado, alleging that the ex-mayor has been prevented from choosing his own lawyer and his relatives were even barred from seeing him.
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