8 rights you have if arrested or detained

If you are arrested or detained, you are entitled to the following rights, according to FLAG:

1. Be treated as a human being;
2. Due process, including being informed of written regulations in the detention center, and not being subjected to harsh, excessive or inhuman punishment such as corporal punishment or solitary confinement;
3. Receive visits from family, friends, and lawyers;
4. Practice your religion;
5. Adequate food, clothing, and healthful accommodations;
6. Be furnished with or to procure reading or writing materials;
7. Be kept separate from convicts serving sentence; and
8. Speedy, impartial, and public trial, as likewise provided by the Constitution. Read more: If you're arrested or detained, know these rights. Michael Bueza @mikebueza. Published 9:34 AM, May 26, 2017. Updated 10:25 AM, May 26, 2017. www.rappler.com/newsbreak/iq/170936-rights-arrested-detained-persons.

According to Republic Act 7438, a person arrested, detained or under custodial investigation shall be allowed visits by:

1. Any member of his/her immediate family
2. A doctor/priest/religious minister chosen by him/her, the immediate family or by his/her counsel
3. Any nongovernmental organization accredited by the Commission on Human Rights (for national NGOs) or the Office of the President (for international NGOs)

RA 7438 defines a person's immediate family as "his or her spouse, fiancé or fiancée, parent or child, brother or sister, grandparent or grandchild, uncle or aunt, nephew or niece, and guardian or ward." Read more: If you're arrested or detained, know these rights. Michael Bueza @mikebueza. Published 9:34 AM, May 26, 2017. Updated 10:25 AM, May 26, 2017. www.rappler.com/newsbreak/iq/170936-rights-arrested-detained-persons.

Illegal acts. 

The following acts are illegal, according to the Bill of Rights of the Constitution:

1. Unreasonable searches and seizures;
2. Use of torture, force, violence, threat, intimidation, or any other means which vitiate or impair the free will;
3. Use of secret detention places, solitary, incommunicado, or other similar forms of detention;
4. Use of a confession or admission obtained in violation of Article III, Section 17 of the Constitution, which says, "No person shall be compelled to be a witness against himself";
5. Detention solely by reason of his political beliefs and aspirations;
6. Involuntary servitude in any form (except as a punishment for a crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted);
7. Imposition of excessive fines;
8. Infliction of cruel, degrading or inhuman punishment; and
9. Imprisonment for debt or non-payment of a poll tax. Read more: If you're arrested or detained, know these rights. Michael Bueza @mikebueza. Published 9:34 AM, May 26, 2017. Updated 10:25 AM, May 26, 2017. www.rappler.com/newsbreak/iq/170936-rights-arrested-detained-persons.