Rights group Hustisya trooped to the Court of Appeals to support the Manalo brothers in filing their reply to the comment of the Office of the Solicitor General (OSG), arguing that the nonconformity of the OSG should not bar the CA from giving due course to the petition. The Malolos RTC rendered a Joint Decision …
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KARAPATAN views the recently published Supreme Court En Banc decision partially granting the writ of amparo of activist Siegfred Deduro as an important legal decision recognizing the dangerous consequences of red-tagging, vilification, and labelling. These dangerous practices of State security forces have long threatened the lives, security and liberty of scores of human rights activists, …
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Through Administrative Order No. 22, Malacanang has just created a “special committee on human rights coordination” in a desperate attempt to window-dress the grave human rights situation in the country. Touted as a new mechanism that comes after the UN Joint Program on human rights in the Philippines, Marcos Jr.’s human rights coordinating council is …
Human rights alliance KARAPATAN decried the recent freezing of the bank accounts of a multi-awarded development non-government organization based in Leyte province. In an order dated May 2, 2024, the Anti-Money Laundering Council (AMLC) ordered the Tacloban branches of PSBank and Metropolitan Bank to freeze the accounts of the Leyte Center for Development Inc. (LCDe), …
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KARAPATAN deplores continuing attempts by the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) to vilify Jonila Castro and Jhed Tamano, both survivors of abduction, torture, enforced disappearance, coercion and other crimes perpetrated by state agents. Jonila and Jhed are environmental activists and community organizers affiliated with AKAP KA-Manila Bay who were kidnapped …
KARAPATAN deplores the latest examples of the Marcos Jr. regime’s weaponization of the twin terror laws – Republic Act No. 11479 or the Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA) of 2020 and Republic Act No. 10168 of the Terrorism Financing Prevention and Suppression Act of 2012 – to criminalize dissent and demonize activists. On January 19, 2024, the …
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KARAPATAN condemns the arrest by anti-riot police of six protesters at the Labor Day rally near the US Embassy. The arrests came in the wake of a statement from the Philippine National Police (PNP) that the rallies marking Labor Day were “peaceful.” Said Karapatan secretary general Cristina Palabay, “The statement is ironic as it is …
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On the first year of disappearance of Dexter Capuyan and Gene Roz Jamil “Bazoo” de Jesus, the Families of the Disappeared for Justice (Desaparecidos) joins Dexter and Bazoo’s families in their continuing search for their loved ones. As we have tirelessly done with our own missing kin, we are one with them in asking: Where …
Human rights group Karapatan reiterated its call to dismiss cases against other political prisoners detained and charged with trumped-up cases on the basis of faulty and unjust search warrants after the Supreme Court’s affirmation of the Court of Appeal’s decision to void the search warrants used against activists Reina Mae Nasino, Ram Carlo Bautista, and …
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As Gene Roz Jamil “Bazoo” de Jesus, an activist, beloved son, brother, and friend, would have celebrated his 28th birthday today, Desaparecidos solemnly marks this occasion amid his continued absence. Bazoo together with Dexter Capuyan were abducted by suspected state agents on April 28, 2023, in Taytay, Rizal, leaving his family, friends, and community devastated …
