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Yesterday, March 7, 2024, KARAPATAN, through its legal counsel, was notified by the Office of the Solicitor General that it intends to appeal the decision of Quezon City Regional Trial Court Branch 84 Judge Luisito Cortez upholding the acquittal of ten human rights defenders of Karapatan, the Rural Missionaries of the Philippines and Gabriela on …

On the continuing judicial harassment vs Karapatan, RMP and Gabriela officers Read More »

Three years after the Bloody Sunday raids of March 7, 2021, justice remains beyond the victims’ grasp. The Bloody Sunday police and military raids saw simultaneous early morning operations in Cavite, Batangas, Rizal and Laguna, ostensibly to serve warrants on 24 individuals. The raids resulted in the extrajudicial killings of nine activists and the illegal …

No justice for Bloody Sunday victims shows naked impunity in PH Read More »

Karapatan condemns the spate of human rights violations as well as violations of International Humanitarian Law (IHL) perpetrated by State forces in the past few weeks. The violations include the brutal killing of civilians and hors de combat, indiscriminate bombings victimizing civilians and showing a disproportionate use of force, enforced disappearance, illegal arrest and detention …

KARAPATAN condemns HR, IHL violations by police, military Read More »

KARAPATAN condemns the forced disappearance of activist-writer Nelson Bautista and the illegal arrest of his companion Ademar Etol on trumped-up charges. Bautista, 45 and Etol, 64, were arrested in Barangay Balingasan, Siay, Zamboanga Sibugay by police forces who barged into the house they were staying at around 2 a.m. of January 25, 2024. Bautista has …

KARAPATAN denounces enforced disappearance of activist-writer in Zamboanga Sibugay Read More »

Karapatan condemns the heightened military operations in Panay and Negros islands, where the Armed Forces of the Philippines has been resorting to artillery strikes and aerial bombings that have terrorized the civilian population in the affected areas. In Escalante City, Negros Occidental, the 79th Infantry Battalion of the Philippine Army (IBPA) concocted stories about numerous …

Rights group decries bombings, IHL violations in Negros, Panay Read More »

Karapatan welcomes the guilty verdict handed down by the Supreme Court (SC) on notorious red- and terrorist-tagger Lorraine Badoy-Partosa for indirect contempt. The charge stemmed from Badoy-Partosa’s incendiary comments on social media where she insulted and hurled death threats against Manila Regional Trial Court Branch 19 Judge Marlo Magdoza-Malagar for having dismissed the Department of …

Karapatan welcomes SC’s guilty verdict vs notorious red-/terrorist-tagger Lorraine Badoy-Partosa Read More »

Continued military harassment has claimed another victim. Eddie Berania, a farmer and barangay kagawad of San Juan Daan, Bulan, Sorsogon died of an apparent suicide on February 25, 2024. His family found him hanging from the roof of his hut on the morning of February 25, after he had been repeatedly threatened and harassed by …

KARAPATAN denounces military harassment, psychological torture of brgy kagawad in Sorsogon Read More »

KARAPATAN condemns the reported extrajudicial killings of five hors de combat in a supposed armed encounter between the New People’s Army (NPA) and combined forces of the Philippine National Police (PNP) and Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP)’s Task Force Bohol and 47th Infantry Battalion of the Philippine Army (IBPA) in Sitio Matin-ao 2, Barangay …

CHR urged to investigate murder of five hors de combat in Bohol Read More »