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"Imprisonment based on trumped-up criminal charges combined with the inhuman jail condition and the slow grind of the justice system caused political prisoner Eduardo Serrano’s death," Cristina Palabay, Karapatan secretary general said. "Serrano, a peace consultant for the National Democratic Front of the Philippines, would have walked out of jail a free man a long …

Karapatan renews call for immediate release of ailing political prisoners Read More »

Karapatan mourns with the family and friends of political prisoner and NDFP peace consultant Eduardo “Eddik” Serrano who passed away on January 8, 2016 due to cardiac arrest. Karapatan shares the grief and rage of the detained peace consultants of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines, other political prisoners, and inmates of Ka Eddik, …

Justice for Eduardo Serrano! Free all political prisoners! Read More »

"As the Yuletide ceasefire between the BS Aquino regime and the communist rebels starts today, December 23, Karaparatan reiterates its call for the Armed Forces of the Philippines to totally pull out its troops and paramilitary groups in peasant and Lumad communities," Cristina Palabay, Secretary General of Karapatan said.

Political detainee Eduardo Serrano, 62, was rushed to the Taguig General Hospital yesterday morning, December 16, after he experienced chest pains. It turned out Serrano had a myocardial infarction (heart attack).  Private physicians of Serrano from the Health Alliance for Human Rights (HAHR) sought his transfer to the Heart Center of the Philippines where he …

Detained NDFP peace consultant hospitalized, seeks release on humanitarian ground Read More »

On November 23, 2015, at around 12:30 in the morning,  Jose Nayve, Armando Matres, George Bruce and Rommel Nuñez were arbitrarily arrested by the elements of the  Philippine National Police (PNP) at a “peryahan” in Brgy. Manggahan, General Trias, Cavite. The police allegedly was in a hot pursuit operation after perpetrators of an explosion that …

Karapatan lambasts torture and illegal arrest of 4 civilians in General Trias Read More »

KARAPATAN Statement regarding Duterte’s repeated declarations justifying and encouraging state-sponsored violence, specifically the resort to extrajudicial killings, in order to curb criminality and impose law and order KARAPATAN human rights alliance denounces presidential candidate Rodrigo Duterte’s repeated, unabashed, and categorical statements justifying the state’s use of extrajudicial killings as a solution to social ills as …

KARAPATAN Statement on Rodrigo Duterte’s declarations on State-sponsored violence Read More »

Today, human rights groups, victims and relatives of human rights violations and members of progressive groups bring before the public an image of a “jailed Noynoy” as a symbol of their desire to see the real-life Aquino in jail for his offenses against people’s rights.