30/07/2019 Republic Act No. 9372 | Official Gazette of the Republic of the Philippines concurrent jurisdiction to prosecute public o cials, law enforcers, and other persons who may have violated the civil and political rights of persons suspected of, or detained for the crime of terrorism or conspiracy to commit terrorism. SEC. 56. Creation of a Grievance Committee. — There is hereby created a Grievance Committee composed of the Ombudsman, as chair, and the Solicitor General, and an undersecretary from the Department of Justice (DOJ), as members, to receive and evaluate complaints against the actuations of the police and law enforcement o cials in the implementation of this Act. The Committee shall hold o ce in Manila. The Committee shall have three subcommittees that will be respectively headed by the Deputy, Ombudsmen in Luzon, the Visayas and Mindanao. The subcommittees shall respectively hold o ce at the O ces of Deputy Ombudsman. Three Assistant Solicitors General designated by the Solicitor General, and the regional prosecutors of the DOJ assigned to the regions where the Deputy Ombudsmen hold o ce shall be members thereof. The three subcommittees shall assist the Grievance Committee in receiving, investigating and evaluating complaints against the police and other law enforcement o cers in the implementation of this Act. If the evidence warrants it, they may le the appropriate cases against the erring police and law enforcement o cers. Unless seasonably disowned or denounced by the complainants, decisions or judgments in the said cases shall preclude the ling of other cases based on the same cause or causes of action as those that were led with the Grievance Committee or its branches. SEC. 57. Ban on Extraordinary Rendition. — No person suspected or convicted of the crime of terrorism shall be subjected to extraordinary rendition to any country unless his or her testimony is needed for terrorist related police investigations or judicial trials in the said country and unless his or her human rights, including the right against torture, and right to counsel, are o cially assured by the requesting country and transmitted accordingly and approved by the Department of Justice. SEC. 58. Extra-Territorial Application of this Act. — Subject to the provision of an existing treaty of which the Philippines is a signatory and to any contrary provision of any law of preferential application, the provisions of this Act shall apply: (1) to individual persons who commit any of the crimes de ned and punished in this Act within the terrestrial domain, interior waters, maritime zone, and airspace of the Philippines; (2) to individual persons who, although physically outside the territorial limits of the Philippines, commit, conspire or plot to commit any of the crimes de ned and punished in this Act inside the territorial limits of the Philippines; (3) to individual persons who, although physically outside the territorial limits of the Philippines, commit any of the said crimes on board Philippine ship or Philippine airship; (4) to individual persons who commit any of said crimes within any embassy, consulate, or diplomatic premises belonging to or occupied by the Philippine government in an o cial capacity; (5) to individual persons who, although physically outside the territorial limits of the https://www.officialgazette.gov.ph/2007/03/06/republic-act-no-9372/ 23/26