Karapatan blasts Senate’s approval of anti-terrorism bill
Karapatan denounces the Senate’s approval of the anti-terrorism bill, calling the said measure a monster legislation that will provide a pretext for de facto martial law in the Philippines.
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Rights group condemns arrest of Rodolfo Salas for trumped-up charges
Karapatan denounces the arrest of Rodolfo Salas, an organizer of farmers and cooperatives in Pampanga since 1992, on February 18, 2020 in Pampanga on trumped-up multiple murder charges filed at the Manila Regional Trial Court Branch 32.
Artists, freedom of expression advocates face greater challenges under Duterte admin
“The recent pull-out of a movie referencing Duterte’s sham drug war and rights violations in a film festival and the suspension of the Twitter account for a musical production that shows the struggles during the Marcos martial law period are the most recent examples of the challenges faced by artists and freedom of expression advocates …
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Karapatan on EDSA People Power Uprising’s 34th anniversary: Resist and end Duterte’s fascist dictatorship
Karapatan stands in solidarity with the Filipino people today in commemorating the 34th anniversary of the EDSA People Power uprising. Today, we remember the thousands of victims of the brutal Marcos dictatorship under martial law along with the long struggle of the people’s martyrs for national democracy, genuine justice, and social change. This momentous event …
NTF-ELCAC desperate in harassing Sister Elenita Belardo, rights defenders —Karapatan
Human rights alliance Karapatan cried foul over the so-called protest staged by groups affiliated with the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) at the Quezon City Hall of Justice on Thursday, February 20, 2020, as former Rural Missionaries of the Philippines (RMP) National Director Sister Elenita Belardo, RGS attended the arraignment …
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Rights network calls on CHR to investigate judicial harassment, trumped up charges vs Mindanao activists, dev’t workers
In a press conference and meeting at the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) today, February 12, 2020, Defend Mindanao, a newly-formed campaign network in defense of Mindanao human rights defenders and development workers facing judicial harassment, appealed to CHR Chairperson Chito Gascon and members of the commission to immediately investigate and facilitate remedies for the …
Political prisoners condemn attacks vs activists, legal organizations
Amidst the continuing assault against legal progressive organizations and human rights workers, political prisoners in Metro Manila District Jail (MMDJ) – Annex 4 in Camp Bagong Diwa, Taguig vehemently condemned the recent questionable arrest of five (5) activ
Quo warranto vs ABS-CBN franchise, a desperate attempt to shut down dissent —Karapatan
In the wake of the quo warranto petition filed by the Office of the Solicitor General seeking to forfeit the legislative franchise of broadcasting network ABS-CBN, human rights alliance Karapatan tagged Solicitor General Jose Calida as “a pathetic lapdog to the whims of Duterte’s political vendetta” and slammed Calida’s petition as “a direct assault on …
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Rights group questions integrity, independence of Tacloban judge who signed off on questionable search, arrests vs Tacloban 5
In a press conference in Quezon City today, human rights group Karapatan questioned the integrity and independence of Judge Eligio Petilla of the Regional Trial Court Branch 44 in Tacloban City, who issued the search warrants effecting the highly questionable search and arrests of five human rights defenders last February 7, 2020.
Karapatan denounces Gestapo-like raids of NGO offices in Tacloban City
Karapatan denounces the arrest of our National Council member for Eastern Visayas Alexander Philip Abinguna along with four other human rights defenders, in the course of Gestapo-like police raids of our chapter’s office in Tacloban City and that of other people’s organizations.