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KARAPATAN calls on BJMP to rescind repressive memorandum

KARAPATAN decried a memorandum allegedly issued by Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP) regional director JCSupt. Clint Russell Tangeres mandating jail authorities to closely monitor detained “suspected Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) members” for allegedly facilitating fund-raising activities using drug money to finance the electoral campaign of senatorial candidate France Castro, currently ACT …

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Marcos Jr. is peddling lies in desperate bid for UNSC nod

At the Vin d’Honneur in Malacañang yesterday, Pres. Ferdinand Marcos Jr. asked the diplomatic community to support his administration’s bid for membership in the UN Security Council, citing the Philippines’ “rich experience” in “building peace, forging consensus, and finding new paths for cooperation.” Marcos Jr. has repeatedly peddled these lies in a desperate bid to …

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Rights group condemns abduction, arbitrary detention of Bicolano youth in palit-ulo scheme

Rights group Karapatan condemned the abduction and continued arbitrary detention of a Bicolano youth by suspected State security forces, in a bid to pressure the victim’s father to surrender. According to reports from Karapatan-Bicol, Gerald Gestole, 24, and his brother Leo, had just gotten off a public utility vehicle in Barangay Chrysanthemum, San Pedro, Laguna …

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KARAPATAN on recent SC decision on unlawful searches and seizures

Karapatan welcomed the latest Supreme Court (SC) ruling affirming the constitutional right against unlawful searches and seizures. In a decision penned by Senior Associate Justice Marvic Leonen, the SC ruled that search warrants must particularly describe the place to be searched. Otherwise, the warrant is deemed a general warrant which is prohibited by the constitution. …

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Arrest of three Negros development workers forebode more trumped-up charges, unjust arrests in 2025

KARAPATAN condemned the arrests of three development workers in Negros, warning that such arrests lay down the Marcos Jr. government’s continuing policy of filing trumped-up charges of financing terrorism and terror law charges in 2025. Federico Salvilla, Perla Jaleco and Dharyll Albañez, former and current staff workers of Paghidaet sa Kauswagan Development Group Inc. (PDG), …

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Rights group calls for greater vigilance in 2025, as IHL violations mark end of past year

Rights group KARAPATAN called for greater vigilance in 2025, as the past year ended with a series of violations of human rights and international humanitarian law by the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and Philippine National Police (PNP) which belied the posturing of the Marcos Jr. government that his administration has a “better” record …

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KARAPATAN denounces continuing judicial harassment by NTF-ELCAC

KARAPATAN decried the continuing judicial harassment by former NTF-ELCAC vice chair Hermogenes Esperon Jr. of its officers as well as those of the Rural Missionaries of the Philippines (RMP) and Gabriela. Esperon, with the NTF-ELCAC’s backing, had filed a trumped-up case of perjury against ten KARAPATAN National Council members, two officers of the RMP and …

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Tulungan n’yo po kaming mahanap sina James and Felix, ngayong Pasko

Photo: Cora Jazmines, wife of James Jazmines, distributes flyers in a bus terminal of Bicol-bound buses (Dec 21) QUEZON CITY — “Sana, makasama na sila ng kanilang pamilya ngayong Pasko. Tulungan n’yo po kaming hanapin sila.” With just a few days before Christmas day, families and friends of desaparecidos, together with rights advocates, distributed leaflets …

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Crimes against humanity charges vs Duterte, et al long overdue – KARAPATAN

Karapatan welcomes but views as long overdue the recommendation of the House of Representatives Quad Committee to file crimes against humanity charges against former Pres. Rodrigo Duterte, Sens. Ronald ‘Bato’ dela Rosa and Christopher ‘Bong’ Go, former PNP chiefs Oscar Albayalde and Debold Sinas and former police colonels Royina Garma and Edilberto Leonardo as well …

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Rights group welcomes news of Mary Jane Veloso’s imminent return home to PH

Human rights alliance KARAPATAN joined migrants rights advocates and other human rights defenders in welcoming Mary Jane Veloso, with news of her imminent transfer from Indonesia to the Philippines, and renewed its call to Pres. Ferdinand Marcos Jr. to immediately grant her executive clemency upon her return. “It would be the height of insensitivity to …

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