Migrant domestic worker beaten and tortured at police station

A Filipina woman whom police interrogated in July 2009 about a robbery at her employer’s house told Human Rights Watch: They took me to the police station. Every question they would slap me.Madame and Mister were in the room, as well as two investigators. Then the police took me to another room and they started beating me with a plastic stick on my hand and feet. The policeman would say, “I will count till five” and then slap me. At one point they threatened to beat me with an iron rod. They made me see it but did not use it. When I kept denying, they said, “If you don’t answer, I will put my cigarette in your eyes.” The interrogation lasted 30 minutes. They kept me in the police station for three days and then took me back to my employers.