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Filipino-American activist Chantal Anicoche reportedly departed on January 29, 2026, for the United States, according to press releases by the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) and the 2nd Infantry Division of the Philippine Army, who had Anicoche in custody for at least 22 days. Anicoche was allegedly found by military …

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KARAPATAN joined a picket in support of anti-corruption protesters who have been slapped with a slew of trumped-up charges by the Department of Justice (DOJ) as they submitted their counter-affidavits to the DOJ today, January 29, 2026. According to data gathered by Karapatan, at least 72 persons have been charged with sedition and inciting to …

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KARAPATAN condemned the spate of incidents, including the attempted abduction of a staff of the Negros-based Paghidaet sa Kauswagan Development Group (PDG) and the issuance of death threats against its lawyer. The rights group called on the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) to conduct a full investigation into these renewed attacks against the development workers …

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KARAPATAN welcomes the decision of the International Criminal Court (ICC) Pretrial Chamber finding Rodrigo Duterte fit to participate in pre-trial proceedings. The ruling rejected a motion from Duterte’s defense lawyers for an indefinite adjournment of the proceedings on claims that their client had cognitive deficits that would prevent him from meaningfully participating in his trial. …

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KARAPATAN human rights alliance and HUSTISYA (Victims United for Justice) condemn in the strongest terms the arrest of at seven anti-mining protesters, including two elderly women, in Dupax del Norte, Nueva Vizcaya this morning, January 23, 2026. Those arrested formed part of a human barricade along the Keon Barangay Road to block the entry of …

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TACLOBAN CITY – Human rights alliance KARAPATAN strongly condemns the wrongful and unjust conviction of community journalist Frenchie Mae Cumpio and humanitarian worker Marielle Domequil, calling it a deliberate plot by the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC), carried out in coordination with the Anti-Terrorism Council (ATC), to silence dissent through …

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The renewed claims of so-called “terror grooming” against progressive youth organizations and young people who immerse and integrate with poor communities are systematic and deliberate assaults by the State on critical thought, political agency, and the right of the youth to protest, organize and dissent. What the State seeks to suppress is not “terrorism”, but …

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KARAPATAN condemned the Department of Justice (DOJ) for coming up with a slew of trumped-up sedition charges against 97 protesters, including mass leaders, who participated in the anti-corruption rally on September 21, 2025, instead of seriously running after corrupt politicians and their cohorts in the private sector. Among those who received subpoenas from the DOJ …

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Human rights alliance KARAPATAN welcomed the acquittal of poet, writer, and peasant women’s organizer Amanda Echanis today, who spent more than five years in detention over trumped-up charges of illegal possession of firearms and explosives. Echanis, an organizer of the Cagayan chapter of the Amihan National Federation of Peasant Women, was arrested in the early …

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Human rights alliance KARAPATAN called on the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) and independent national and international monitors of International Humanitarian Law (IHL) to immediately investigate the aerial strafing and bombings carried out by the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) in Barangay Cabacao, Abra de Ilog, Occidental Mindoro on 1 January 2026, which left …

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