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ON THE PENALTIES VS COPS INVOLVED IN THE KILLING OF JEMBOY BALTAZAR

Karapatan decries the lighter penalties against Navotas police officers involved in the killing of 17-year old Jemboy Baltazar, as the Navotas Regional Trial Court Branch 286 promulgated its decision finding Police Staff Sergeant Gerry Maliban guilty of reckless imprudence resulting in homicide and four others of illegal discharge of firearm, instead of murder. One police …

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KARAPATAN slams abduction-fake surrender modus of PNP, military in Batangas

Once again, state security forces are playing the game of abduction-fake surrender. Jose Maria Estiller, whose abduction in Sto. Tomas, Batangas on the afternoon of February 20, 2024 by five armed men in plain clothes was captured on CCTV cameras, was reported by the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group of the Philippine National Police (PNP-CIDG) …

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Another victim adds up to the list of desaparecidos under Marcos Jr.

“Thirty eight years after the fall of the Marcos Sr. dictatorship, the dictator’s son, Ferdinand Marcos Jr. and his state security forces, continue the act of abduction and enforced disappearance,” said Karapatan secretary general Cristina Palabay, as they demand to surface another victim of enforced disappearance in Sto. Tomas, Batangas. Closed circuit television (CCTV) cameras …

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Karapatan: Marcos Jr.’s Cha-Cha violates people’s rights

Ferdinand Marcos Jr. ‘s charter change project is proving more and more that he is his dictator-father’s son. Packaged as “economic cha-cha,” it ostensibly aims to do away with provisions in the 1987 Constitution that limit foreign ownership of local businesses and allegedly stifle the country’s ability to attract foreign direct investments. For decades, however, …

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Rights group condemns aerial strikes in Escalante, Negros Occidental

“The Marcoses have victimized the people of Escalante, Negros Occidental, many times over,” said KARAPATAN Secretary General Cristina Palabay, as the human rights group condemned the aerial strikes in Escalante, Negros Occidental on February 22, 2024. According to reports from the media and on the ground, at least five rockets were fired by a helicopter …

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Honoring JPE on his 100th birthday disrespects martial law victims – SELDA

The Samahan ng Ex-detainees Laban sa Detensyon at Aresto (SELDA), an organization of former political prisoners established during the Marcos Sr. regime which has been at the forefront of pursuing justice for Marcos martial law victims, believes that the Philippine Postal Corporation’s issuance of a centenarian personalized stamp and a commemorative cover for the 100th …

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Jhed Tamano, Jonila Castro need protection, not arrest and prosecution – KARAPATAN

“Jhed Tamano and Jonila Castro need protection, not arrest and prosecution,” said rights group KARAPATAN as it slammed the arrest warrant issued against the two young women environmental defenders, over charges of grave oral defamation filed against them by the military and the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC). “Let it …

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KARAPATAN slams arbitrary arrests, threats ahead of EDSA People Power 1 commemoration

“The arbitrary arrests and unjust detention of Filipinos under the Ferdinand Marcos Jr. regime show that the same forms of injustice that the Filipino people rose up against 38 years ago continue,” said KARAPATAN Secretary General Cristina Palabay, as the group condemned the unjust arrests and detention of persons ahead of the People Power 1 …

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KARAPATAN on the SC decision on petition for legal protection of Castro, Tamano

KARAPATAN welcomes the Supreme Court’s issuance of the writs of amparo and habeas data, as well as the temporary protection order granted to young environmental activists Jonila Castro and Jhed Reiyana Tamano. We note and appreciate the SC’s views on the existence of elements of enforced disappearance in the case and the established violation or …

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