Amal Clooney Asks UN Human Rights Council to Act on Arroyo Detention

Amal Alamuddin Clooney (Source: Inquirer.net/AP Photo)

Amal Alamuddin Clooney, human rights lawyer and the wife of actor George Clooney, has urged the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention to act swiftly on the case of the former president Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, who has been under hospital detention for three years already for plunder on a charity fund mess, reports Inquirer.net. Arroyo’s lawyer, Atty. Larry Gadon, confirmed that  a renowned international human rights lawyer, urged the UN Human Rights Council to treat the case under “urgent action procedure” instead of being considered a regular case.