KARAPATAN vowed its unflinching solidarity with thousands of peasants marching in Manila as they denounced the intensifying military operations in the countryside and violations on their right to protest in the hands of the police. The peasants, who are in Manila to mark National Peasant Month, were driven out of their protest camp at the …
Human rights alliance KARAPATAN welcomed the acquittal of labor organizer and political prisoner Juan Alexander “Bob” Reyes by the Quezon City Regional Trial Court Branch 97 today, October 20, 2026, on trumped-up charges of illegal possession of explosives, paving the way for his release after more than eight years of unjust imprisonment on fabricated criminal …
KARAPATAN condemned the police harassment and manhandling of a journalist covering yesterday’s violent dispersal of a protest camp-out by farmers and called on the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) to conduct an immediate investigation on the emerging pattern of heightened suppression of protests. The farmers led by the Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas were in the …
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Farmers from various regions protested in front of the Department of National Defense (DND) headquarters at Camp Aguinaldo in Quezon City to condemn the continuing military operations in rural communities and demand an end to human rights violations committed in the course of the Marcos Jr. administration’s counterinsurgency campaign. Farmers from Bicol, Southern Tagalog, Negros …
KARAPATAN condemned the Philippine National Police (PNP) for harassing, threatening and driving out some 200 protesting farmers from a camp-out at the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) in the evening of October 16, 2026. The farmers were reportedly kicked out of the protest venue on orders of a DENR official and the Quezon …
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Human rights alliance KARAPATAN called for the release of Filipino-American activist Christina Pasion and the dismissal of the charges against her, stressing that no one should be imprisoned or prosecuted on the basis of questionable identification and accusations unsupported by credible evidence. “The continued detention and prosecution of Christina Pasion, despite the glaring weaknesses in …
KARAPATAN condemned the killing of three teenagers by a member of Task Force Disiplina in the early morning of October 12, 2026. The three youth, whose ages range from 15 to 19 years, were among a group of five teenagers staying in front of a store in Batasan Hills at around 2:00 a.m. The TFD …
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KARAPATAN condemned the US for its barefaced attacks on the International Criminal Court (ICC), after the US escalated economic and diplomatic sanctions against the ICC since the latter looked into war crimes committed by the Israeli Zionist regime in Palestine. The US had already been ramping up sanctions against the ICC since 2018 when the …
KARAPATAN called for an end to the military and police harassment of a team conducting a study on the effects of El Niño and the construction of an EDCA site on the ancestral lands of an indigenous group in Palawan. Journalist Marky Casaquite of Southern Tagalog Exposure and writer-photographer and League of Filipino Students-Southern Tagalog …
KARAPATAN welcomed the International Criminal Court (ICC) Trial Chamber III’s decision, made public yesterday, finding former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte fit to stand trial for crimes against humanity. Preparations for his trial are now full steam ahead. The delays and maneuvers of his defense counsel, for him not to face justice, should all be put …
