Media Release Type: Press statement

SELDA: Free Filipino imprisoned writers, free all political prisoners

Today, November 15, 2024, as PEN commemorates the International Day of Imprisoned Writers, the Samahan ng Ex-Detainees Laban sa Detensyon at Aresto (SELDA) stands in solidarity with all imprisoned and persecuted writers around the world and supports the call from PEN International for their immediate release. SELDA demands that the Ferdinand Marcos Jr. regime release …

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Kin, friends of EJK victims continue the call for justice for botanist Leonard Co

Hustisya, an organization of families and friends of victims of extrajudicial killings and other human rights violations, joins the family and colleagues as well as environmental defenders in demanding justice for slain botanist Leonardo Co, even as they decry the glaring injustice in the government’s continuing failure to hold his killers accountable. Co, who led …

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Kin of missing activists to SC: Marcos Jr. should surface James Jazmines and Felix Salaveria Jr.

Cora Jazmines, wife of James Jazmines, represented by the National Union of Peoples’ Lawyers (NUPL); and Gabreyel and Felicia Ferrer, daughters of Felix Salaveria Jr., represented by La Viña, Zarate and Associates, impleaded Pres. Ferdinand Marcos Jr. and Executive Secretary Lucas Bersamin in separate petitions for writs of amparo and habeas data, to demand that …

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Victims, kin recount harrowing tales of rights violations at CHR redtagging probe in Mindanao

KARAPATAN welcomes the probe on red-tagging in Mindanao held on November 11 and 12, 2024 by the Commission on Human Rights (CHR). The activity is part of a series of the public inquiry on red-tagging being conducted by the CHR in different areas of the country that began in July 2024. In Southern Mindanao, ten …

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Rights group supports environmental activist’s plea for legal protection

Karapatan joined environmental rights activists and other human rights defenders in expressing support for Francisco “Eco” Dangla who will be attending his first hearing at the Court of Appeals on his petition for writs of amparo and habeas data today, November 12, 2024. Dangla and his companion, fellow environmental activist Joxelle “Jak” Tiong, were abducted …

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Rights group decries COCOPEA’s membership in notorious gov’t task force

KARAPATAN condemns the entry of the Coordinating Council of Private Educational Associations (COCOPEA) into the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) as a private sector representative. COCOPEA is an umbrella group of several private school organizations. Its membership in the NTF-ELCAC means that the task force’s so-called “information drives,” which are …

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Rights group skeptical over new task force on drug war

KARAPATAN expressed skepticism over Justice Secretary Jesus Crispin Remulla’s newly created task force to probe extrajudicial killings (EJK) under the Duterte regime’s war on drugs. “Riddling the horizon with task forces has so far not been useful in dispensing justice for the victims,” said Karapatan secretary general Cristina Palabay. “We seriously doubt that Secretary Remulla’s …

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