Monthly Archives: February 2015

Human rights group Karapatan said that a jail warden should be immediately relieved from her post in Camp Bagong Diwa as the latter allegedly uses her post to get back to those who filed a case against her.

Warden Michelle Ng-Bonto is in-charge of the Special Intensive Care Area 1 (SICA 1-Camp Bagong Diwa) and is now facing criminal and administrative cases at the Office of the Ombudsman following the filing of cases of political prisoners and human rights group for gross misconduct, grave abuse of authority, gross oppression and for conduct unbecoming of a Public Officer.

Cristina Palabay, Karapatan secretary general, said in a statement that on February 24, Karapatan Deputy Secretary General and SELDA national coordinator Jigs Clamor, Desaparecidos Secretary General Aya Santos and two other staff of the Karapatan national office were barred from visiting the political prisoners in SICA-1 in Taguig City without any valid reason.

Officer SJ04 Armando Bautista told Clamor that onNg-Bontos orders, they needed to secure clearance from the National Headquarters of the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology before they can visit the political prisoners.

The four Karapatan staff are regular visitors of the political prisoners at SICA-1, Palabay said.

Earlier, onJanuary 27, a Joint Manifestation at the Taguig Regional Trial Court Branch 266 and Branch 271 requires S/Supt. Michelle Ng Bonto to explain violations of the rights of political prisoners.

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Human rights group says jail-warden on power trip

Last Updated Feb 26, 2015 11:36 AM EST

LONDON -- The knife-wielding masked ISIS militant seen in a number of beheading videos and dubbed "Jihadi John" has been named as Mohammed Emwazi, a London man with a college degree, a U.S. intelligence official confirmed to CBS News Thursday.

Emwazi earned his degree from the University of Westminster, the official told CBS News.

Both The Washington Post and the BBC reported Thursday that he was known to British security services by 2011 at the latest.

Friends of Emwazi spoke to the Post on condition of anonymity, including one who said that they had "no doubt" Emwazi was the man who appeared in ISIS' execution videos.

"Jihadi John" appeared in a video released in August showing the slaying of American journalist James Foley. A man with similar stature and voice was also featured in videos of the killings of American journalist Steven Sotloff, Britons David Haines and Alan Henning and U.S. aid worker Peter Kassig.

The research director at a British human rights group also told the Post that he believed Emwazi was the man in the videos.

"There was an extremely strong resemblance," Asim Qureshi told the Post. "This is making me feel fairly certain that this is the same person."

At press conference Thursday, Qureshi told reporters that he couldn't be "100 percent certain" that the two men were the same.

"The guy's got a hood on his head," Qureshi said.

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U.S. intel official confirms identity of "Jihadi John"