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Karapatan hits DND, AFP for maliciously tagging religious and aid groups as “legal fronts”

Human rights group Karapatan expresses its deep concern over the recent presentation made by the Department of National Defense and the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) which tagged various religious and humanitarian organizations as fronts of the “Communist Terrorist Group.”   On Tuesday, November 5, while presenting the AFP Modernization Program in a hearing …

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Karapatan questions QC judge’s role in weaponizing the law to target activists

Human rights group Karapatan, along with various people’s organizations, trooped to the Quezon City Hall of Justice on Wednesday, November 6, 2019 to question and denounce the acts of an executive judge who issued the patently baseless search warrants that led to the raids of offices of progressive groups and the arbitrary arrest of dozens …

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