THE arrest last Friday of Dr. Ma. Natividad Castro sends shivers down the spine of many who experienced martial law. It is something that should not be happening in a democracy, particularly under an administration that claims that the justice system is well in place and working.

Known to her patients and to the indigenous communities she has served as Doc Naty, Castro was arrested in her home in San Juan, Metro Manila on the morning of Friday, February 18 and "moved from one place to another without the arresting officers, who were in civilian clothes, telling [her lawyer] and her family where they would bring her," her legal counsel Luie Tito Guia wrote on his Facebook account.

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