Media Release Type: Press release

KARAPATAN: Attacks vs human rights defenders, communities rife under Marcos Jr.

As social movements, groups and the United Nations commemorate July 18 as Nelson Mandela International Day, and days before the fourth State of the Nation Address of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., human rights alliance KARAPATAN scored the Marcos administration for its heightened attacks against human rights defenders and communities through illegal or arbitrary arrests, judicial …

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Rights group welcomes filing of bill for recognizance of sick, elderly indigent prisoners

KARAPATAN welcomes the filing of a bill at the House of Representatives by the Makabayan bloc representatives which seeks to include fragile health and advanced age as additional grounds for the release on recognizance of indigent prisoners. Joining Reps. Antonio Tinio of ACT Teachers Partylist and Renee Co of Kabataan Partylist in refiling the bill …

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Rights group denounces BuCor’s permanent ban vs Kapatid spokesperson

KARAPATAN assailed the Bureau of Corrections’ (BuCor) permanent ban of Kapatid spokesperson Fides Lim from visiting prison camps under its jurisdiction, saying it violates human rights standards set under a domestic law in the Philippines and the UN Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners. “Considering that, by its own admission, the Bureau of …

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Rights group to CA: Reverse unjust decision vs Ocampo, Castro, Lumad teachers and advocates

KARAPATAN marked the first anniversary of the decision by a Tagum City court on trumped up charges against 13 indigenous peoples rights advocates, including former legislators, by renewing calls for the reversal of what it called an “unjust verdict.” On July 15, 2024, the Tagum City Regional Trial Court Branch 2 decided against former Bayan …

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Rights group slams OSG’s motion for reconsideration, return to prison of elderly political prisoner

KARAPATAN lambasted the Office of the Solicitor General (OSG) for filing a motion for reconsideration with the Court of Appeals (CA) seeking to bring back to jail an ailing octogenerian who had been wrongly arrested and detained. Eighty-one year old Prudencio “Tay Pruding” Calubid Jr. was ordered released by the CA’s 16th Division on June …

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KARAPATAN: Philippine terror laws are grave threats to democracy, rights

Five years of the Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA) of 2020 and 13 years of its evil twin, the Terrorism Financing Prevention and Suppression Act (TFPSA), have proven that they are grave threats to democracy and to the exercise of civil liberties and fundamental rights guaranteed by the Philippine Constitution and international human rights treaties and norms. …

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KARAPATAN hits CIDG delays and inaction on Bacolod HR worker’s bail docs

Karapatan condemns the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) in Bacolod City for deliberately delaying the transmission of documents needed to process the bail of detained human rights defender and development worker Felipe Gelle, who has been in custody by the CIDG since June 25, 2025. Gelle, who is part of the staff of Paghida-et …

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