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Former political prisoners call for release of trade union organizer Bob Reyes

The Samahan ng mga Ex-Detainee Laban sa Detensyon at Aresto (SELDA), an organization of former political prisoners, joins trade union activists and other rights defenders in calling for the release of union organizer Juan Alexander “Bob” Reyes, who is scheduled for a hearing at Quezon City Regional Trial Court Branch 226 today on trumped-up charges …

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KARAPATAN slams NTF-ELCAC video vs progressive youth rep Raoul Manuel

KARAPATAN slammed a recent video by the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) that not only red-tagged but spewed homophobic slurs against KARAPATAN National Council member and Kabataan Partylist Rep. Raoul Manuel. Issued five days before the start of the national campaign period for the 2025 mid-term elections, the video contained …

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Rights group denounces state surveillance vs progressive candidates in Negros

KARAPATAN assailed the surveillance by a suspected state agent of the Makabayan-Negros and Bayan Muna-Bacolod mid-term elections kick-off caravan last February 11, 2024. According to witnesses, the alleged intelligence agent, who wore dark glasses and a hoodie and was riding a motorcycle, tailed the caravan and kept asking the participants what route the caravan would …

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KARAPATAN to COMELEC, CHR: Investigate, stop red-tagging, military attacks during polls

Rights group KARAPATAN called on the Commission on Elections and the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) to immediately investigate reports of red-tagging of candidates, campaigners and the electorate and military operations in communities, as the first day of the campaign period for the 2025 midterm elections commenced yesterday, February 11. “The election campaign period should …

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KARAPATAN warns voters on red-taggers, rights violators vying for elections

On the eve of the campaign period for the 2025 midterm elections, Karapatan called on Filipino voters to resoundingly reject candidates and partylists with abominable records of human rights violations. “The common denominator of these candidates is their direct hand in the atrocities committed against the Filipino people. We appeal to the people not to …

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KARAPATAN hits slow-paced court proceedings of gov’t case vs human rights worker, colleagues in Tacloban

KARAPATAN threw its support behind press freedom advocates, human rights defenders and progressive development workers in demanding justice for five activists illegally arrested in Tacloban in 2020. KARAPATAN human rights worker Alexander Philip “Chakoy” Abinguna, community journalist Frenchie Mae Cumpio, development worker Mariel Domequil, Bagong Alyansang Makabayan staff Mira Legion, and environmental activist Marissa Cabaljao …

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KARAPATAN on today’s win of the impeachment case vs VP Sara Duterte

By Cristina PalabayKarapatan Secretary General and one of the complainants in the 2nd impeachment complaint The House of Representatives’ approval of the resolution on the Articles of Impeachment against Vice President Sara Duterte and its transmission to the Senate is a win in the Filipino people’s struggle for accountability of the Dutertes and their corrupt …

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