Senate debate seen on extraordinary rendition

Senate Minority Leader Alan Peter Cayetano yesterday sponsored the minority bloc’s resolution seeking to protect Filipinos from extraordinary rendition or surrender to a foreign country, amid a likely issuance by the International Criminal Court (ICC) of arrest warrants for his allies Senators Ronald dela Rosa and Bong Go.

- Marc Jayson Cayabyab

In cosponsoring Senate Resolution No. 307, Cayetano said the 1987 Constitution itself states that Filipinos are entitled to seek judicial relief in domestic courts, instead of being whisked away to a foreign tribunal like what happened to former president Rodrigo