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The Samahan ng mga Ex-Detainee Laban sa Detensyon at Aresto (SELDA) condemns in the strongest terms the harassment of former political prisoner Adora Faye de Vera, charging that the state should instead train its guns on corrupt bureaucrats. The 69-year old De Vera, a prolific writer, poet and researcher, reported to SELDA that she was …
The Samahan ng mga Ex-Detainee Laban sa Detensyon at Aresto (SELDA), an organization of former political prisoners since Marcos Sr. martial law, has no tears to shed for the passing of Juan Ponce Enrile. For thousands of victims of the Marcos dictatorship, Enrile will forever be remembered neither as a patriot nor a statesman, but …
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The Samahan ng Ex-Detainees Laban sa Detensyon at Aresto (SELDA), an organization of former political prisoners, vehemently condemns the “violent and unjust acts of reprisal being unleashed” by Warden Crisyrel Awe against detainees in the Negros Occidental District Jail (NODJ) in Bago City and called on the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) to look into …
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The Regional Trial Court (RTC) Branch 7 in Bayugan City, Agusan del Sur has denied an urgent motion for furlough filed by political prisoner and peasant organizer Virgie Valdez, who sought temporary leave to attend her mother’s wake and burial. The court’s decision upheld the opposition from the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP), …
The Samahan ng Ex-Detainees Laban sa Detensyon at Aresto (SELDA), an organization of former political prisoners, asserts that the Marcos family’s unpaid ₱203-billion estate tax remains the clearest symbol of entrenched impunity in the country. This comes in light of the Bureau of Internal Revenue’s (BIR) recent filing of tax evasion charges against former Department …
Calling it “way long overdue,” human rights alliance Karapatan said there should be no obstruction and no compromise in the implementation of the warrant of arrest of Senator Ronald “Bato” dela Rosa by the International Criminal Court (ICC), to ensure that long-delayed justice is finally served to the victims of the Duterte administration’s war on …
Human rights alliance KARAPATAN denounced the decision of the Regional Trial Court Branch 21 in Laoang, Northern Samar, which denied the motion to quash filed by political prisoner and KARAPATAN National Council member Alexander Philip “Chakoy” Abinguña, even as it granted the same motion of journalist Frenchie Mae Cumpio due to an invalid arrest. “The …
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The Samahan ng Ex-Detainees Laban sa Detensyon at Aresto (SELDA), and organization of former political prisoners, together with KARAPATAN and other human rights advocates, held a protest action today, November 6, 2025, in front of the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology National Headquarters in Quezon City to demand an immediate and independent investigation into …
Human rights alliance KARAPATAN strongly denounced the attempted participation of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) in a University of Santo Tomas (UST) research colloquium, calling it a brazen infiltration of academic spaces and a direct threat to academic freedom and the right to express. “NTF-ELCAC has no place in …
Human rights alliance KARAPATAN welcomed the Court of Appeals decision overturning the Anti-Money Laundering Council’s (AMLC) attempt to forfeit funds belonging to journalist Frenchie Mae Cumpio and church lay worker Marielle Domequil, calling it a long-overdue vindication after years of red-tagging and fabricated charges. “This decision is an affirmation of truth in a landscape where …
