Karapatan welcomes the guilty verdict handed down by the Supreme Court (SC) on notorious red- and terrorist-tagger Lorraine Badoy-Partosa for indirect contempt. The charge stemmed from Badoy-Partosa’s incendiary comments on social media where she insulted and hurled death threats against Manila Regional Trial Court Branch 19 Judge Marlo Magdoza-Malagar for having dismissed the Department of …
Continued military harassment has claimed another victim. Eddie Berania, a farmer and barangay kagawad of San Juan Daan, Bulan, Sorsogon died of an apparent suicide on February 25, 2024. His family found him hanging from the roof of his hut on the morning of February 25, after he had been repeatedly threatened and harassed by …
KARAPATAN condemns the reported extrajudicial killings of five hors de combat in a supposed armed encounter between the New People’s Army (NPA) and combined forces of the Philippine National Police (PNP) and Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP)’s Task Force Bohol and 47th Infantry Battalion of the Philippine Army (IBPA) in Sitio Matin-ao 2, Barangay …
CHR urged to investigate murder of five hors de combat in Bohol Read More »
Karapatan decries the lighter penalties against Navotas police officers involved in the killing of 17-year old Jemboy Baltazar, as the Navotas Regional Trial Court Branch 286 promulgated its decision finding Police Staff Sergeant Gerry Maliban guilty of reckless imprudence resulting in homicide and four others of illegal discharge of firearm, instead of murder. One police …
ON THE PENALTIES VS COPS INVOLVED IN THE KILLING OF JEMBOY BALTAZAR Read More »
Once again, state security forces are playing the game of abduction-fake surrender. Jose Maria Estiller, whose abduction in Sto. Tomas, Batangas on the afternoon of February 20, 2024 by five armed men in plain clothes was captured on CCTV cameras, was reported by the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group of the Philippine National Police (PNP-CIDG) …
KARAPATAN slams abduction-fake surrender modus of PNP, military in Batangas Read More »
Ferdinand Marcos Jr. ‘s charter change project is proving more and more that he is his dictator-father’s son. Packaged as “economic cha-cha,” it ostensibly aims to do away with provisions in the 1987 Constitution that limit foreign ownership of local businesses and allegedly stifle the country’s ability to attract foreign direct investments. For decades, however, …
Karapatan: Marcos Jr.’s Cha-Cha violates people’s rights Read More »
The Samahan ng Ex-detainees Laban sa Detensyon at Aresto (SELDA), an organization of former political prisoners established during the Marcos Sr. regime which has been at the forefront of pursuing justice for Marcos martial law victims, believes that the Philippine Postal Corporation’s issuance of a centenarian personalized stamp and a commemorative cover for the 100th …
Honoring JPE on his 100th birthday disrespects martial law victims – SELDA Read More »
“Jhed Tamano and Jonila Castro need protection, not arrest and prosecution,” said rights group KARAPATAN as it slammed the arrest warrant issued against the two young women environmental defenders, over charges of grave oral defamation filed against them by the military and the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC). “Let it …
Jhed Tamano, Jonila Castro need protection, not arrest and prosecution – KARAPATAN Read More »
KARAPATAN welcomes the Supreme Court’s issuance of the writs of amparo and habeas data, as well as the temporary protection order granted to young environmental activists Jonila Castro and Jhed Reiyana Tamano. We note and appreciate the SC’s views on the existence of elements of enforced disappearance in the case and the established violation or …
KARAPATAN on the SC decision on petition for legal protection of Castro, Tamano Read More »
While there are unconfirmed reports on a warrant of arrest against former President Rodrigo Duterte, KARAPATAN believes that steps to make him and his co-conspirators accountable for grave human rights violations, through international or domestic mechanisms, are long overdue and that any effort towards redress should be done immediately. Official police records put the number …
