Son asks President Marcos to free Adora Faye

MANILA, Philippines — A son of martial law victim and survivor Adora Faye de Vera yesterday appealed to President Marcos to release his mother, who was arrested last week by police.

Ron de Vera made the plea as he explained that his mother is in need of urgent medical treatment for chronic asthma, anemia, constant pain in her bones and joints and other ailments.

He added that if Marcos is intent on cleaning up his family’s name, he should release his mother and other political prisoners.

“Please prove to us that you are not like your father. If you are trying to clean up your name, then do what is right,” De Vera said in an interview over ANC.

Her son said Adora Faye was tortured and raped by military personnel during martial law under the late strongman Ferdinand Marcos Sr.

Adora Faye was transferred to the Pototan municipal police station in Iloilo, where she is spending her quarantine.

She was arrested by police on Aug. 24 on a warrant of arrest for multiple murder and frustrated murder in connection with a November 2005 ambush in Calinog, Iloilo wherein nine Army Scout Rangers were killed and 20 others wounded with the use of an improvised explosive device.

Police allege that she is linked to the Communist Party of the Philippines.

Her son branded the charges against her as absurd and ridiculous.

The younger De Vera said he and his family remain hopeful that his uncle who distanced himself from the issue, Commission on Higher Education chairman J. Prospero de Vera III, would help his sister.