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 …
The Marcos Jr.’s duplicity in pursuing peace negotiations with the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) is highly evident with the latest resolutions issued by the Anti-Terrorism Council (ATC) maintaining the designation of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) and the New People’s Army (NPA) as “terrorist organizations” and branding two women NDFP …
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KARAPATAN condemns the series of grave violations of human rights and International Humanitarian Law (IHL) perpetrated by state forces in Bukidnon. On April 10, 2024, witnesses from the locality reported that former UP student turned New People’s Army guerrilla Kaliska Dominica Peralta was accosted unarmed by elements of the 48th Infantry Battalion of the Philippine …
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Civilians are bearing the brunt of intensified militarization in the countryside and increasingly being victimized by the violations of human rights and International Humanitarian Law (IHL) that mark counter-insurgency operations under the Marcos Jr. regime. In Sitio Tadloy, Barangay Luna, Placer, Masbate, troopers under the 2nd Infantry Battalion of the Philippine Army summarily killed peasant …
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Karapatan condemns the rampant extrajudicial killings of civilians in Masbate, with the latest killing bringing to 27 the number of victims who had been summarily killed in the course of the Marcos Jr. regime’s counter-insurgency war on the island. On April 2, 2024, farmer Elorde “Nonoy” Almario was abducted, beaten up and summarily executed by …
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