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Republic Act No. 9372 | Official Gazette of the Republic of the Philippines
name, description, and address of the detained person; (b) the date and exact time of his initial
admission for custodial arrest and detention; (c) the name and address of the physician or physicians
who examined him physically and medically; (d) the state of his health and physical condition at the
time of his initial admission for custodial detention; (e) the date and time of each removal of the
detained person from his cell for interrogation or for any purpose; (f) the date and time of his return to
his cell; (g) the name and address of the physician or physicians who physically and medically
examined him after each interrogation; (h) a summary of the physical and medical ndings on the
detained person after each of such interrogation; (i) the names and addresses of his family members
and nearest relatives, if any and if available; (j) the names and addresses of persons who visit the
detained person; (k) the date and time of each of such visits; (1) the date and time of each request of
the detained person to communicate and confer with his legal counsel or counsels; (m) the date and
time of each visit, and date and time of each departure of his legal counsel or counsels; and, (n) all
other important events bearing on and all relevant details regarding the treatment of the detained
person while under custodial arrest and detention.
The said police or law enforcement custodial unit shall upon demand of the aforementioned lawyer or
lawyers or members of the family or relatives within the fourth civil degree of consanguinity or a nity
of the person under custody or his or her physician issue a certi ed true copy of the entries of the
logbook relative to the concerned detained person without delay or restriction or requiring any fees
whatsoever including documentary stamp tax, notarial fees, and the like. This certi ed true copy may
be attested by the person who has custody of the logbook or who allowed the party concerned to
scrutinize it at the time the demand for the certi ed true copy is made.
The police or other law enforcement custodial unit who fails to comply with the preceding paragraph
to keep an o cial logbook shall suffer the penalty of ten (10) years and one day to twelve (12) years of
imprisonment.
SEC. 24. No Torture or Coercion in Investigation and Interrogation. — No threat, intimidation, or
coercion, and no act which will in ict any form of physical pain or torment, or mental, moral, or
psychological pressure, on the detained person, which shall vitiate his free-will, shall be employed in
his investigation and interrogation for the crime of terrorism or the crime of conspiracy to commit
terrorism; otherwise, the evidence obtained from said detained person resulting from such threat,
intimidation, or coercion, or from such in icted physical pain or torment, or mental, moral, or
psychological pressure, shall be, in its entirety, absolutely not admissible and usable as evidence in any
judicial, quasi-judicial, legislative, or administrative, investigation, inquiry, proceeding, or hearing.
SEC. 25. Penalty for Threat, Intimidation, Coercion, or Torture in the Investigation and Interrogation of a
Detained Person. — Any person or persons who use threat, intimidation, or coercion, or who in ict
physical pain or torment, or mental, moral, or psychological pressure, which shall vitiate the free-will of
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