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Rights groups renew calls for justice on killing of Randy Echanis, other EJK victims

Human rights groups Karapatan and Hustisya, an organization of families and friends of victims of extrajudicial killings and other human rights violations, mark the fifth anniversary of the killing of peasant leader Randall “Ka Randy” Echanis with renewed calls for justice and accountability. Ka Randy was stabbed 12 times by suspected state agents who broke …

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KARAPATAN: Shameful, shameless Senate in a shameful, shameless government

After a long-winded session, the Philippine Senate shamelessly reneged on its duty to hold accountable Vice President Sara Duterte for misusing more than Php600 million in her Confidential and Intelligence Funds (CIF). For hours, the vast majority of senators gave speeches that were variations of the same theme set down by the Supreme Court — …

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KARAPATAN welcomes acquittal of peace consultant, four others in trumped up charges

KARAPATAN welcomes the acquittal by the Taguig City Regional Trial Court Branch 70 of five activists arrested in Laguna almost seven years ago on trumped-up charges of illegal possession of firearms and explosives (IPFE). Collectively known as the “Sta. Cruz 5,” the activists—National Democratic Front of the Philippines consultant Adelberto Silva, veteran union organizer Ireneo …

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Rights groups welcome dismissal of trumped up charges vs indigenous rights advocate

KARAPATAN and the Samahan ng Ex-Detainees Laban sa Detensyon at Aresto (SELDA) welcomed the dismissal of trumped up frustrated murder charges against indigenous rights advocate Myrna Cruz-Abraham. In a five-page decision by Judge Conrado T. Tabaco of the Aparri Regional Trial Court Branch 9, the court granted Abraham’s demurrer to evidence, effectively dismissing the frustrated …

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KARAPATAN decries add’l trumped up charges vs detained rights worker, journalist

KARAPATAN condemns the continuing judicial harassment against its detained Eastern Visayas human rights worker Alexander Philip Abinguña and community journalist Frenchie Mae Cumpio, and the questionable role played by the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) in Region 8 in such harassment. Abinguña and Cumpio have been slapped with additional trumped-up charges of double murder and …

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KARAPATAN condemns recent attacks vs Mindanaoan human rights defenders

KARAPATAN strongly condemned the spate of attacks on human rights defenders in Mindanao and called on the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) to conduct a thoroughgoing probe. Warren Cahayag, one of the founding paralegals of the Union of Peoples Lawyers in Mindanao (UPLM) in 2005, was shot five times by motorcycle-riding gunmen in Barangay Calumpang, …

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Rights group welcomes recent CA decision on missing activist, scores gov’t failure to investigate and surface desaparecidos

KARAPATAN welcomes the Court of Appeals decision granting the privileges of the writs of amparo and habeas data in favor of the daughters of Felix Salaveria Jr., an indigenous people’s activist and cycling advocate who was abducted on August 28, 2024 and has been missing since then. The decision of the Former Thirteenth Division of …

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KARAPATAN: Situation of Mindoreños embodies the State of the Nation under Marcos Jr.

“The ‘state of calamity’ in Mindoro goes beyond the effects of the typhoons that have recently devastated the island. The people of the island, including the indigenous Mangyan communities, have been subjected to varying forms and levels of human rights violations due to intensified militarization as well as the destructive operations of big corporations that …

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