Today, February 19, 2025, marks the 18th year of the disappearance of National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) consultant Leo Velasco. He was last seen walking along a street in Cagayan de Oro at around 10:30 a.m. on February 19, 2007 when three armed men claiming to be government agents forced him into a …
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Desaparecidos welcomes the Supreme Court resolution granting a temporary protection order for the families of missing activists Dexter Capuyan and Gene Roz Jamil “Bazoo” de Jesus. In an en banc resolution dated September 9, 2024 but made public only on November 22, 2024, the Supreme Court prohibited public respondents PNP chief Benjamin C. Acorda Jr., …
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Families of desaparecidos demanded that the Marcos Jr. surface the 14 victims of enforced disappearance under his regime and implement fully the Anti Enforced and Involuntary Disappearance Law. Carrying shirts and clothes of their missing loved ones, families of the desaparecidos gathered at the Bantayog ng mga Bayani to once again urge the State to …
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Desaparecidos, an organization of families and friends of the disappeared, stands in solidarity with the families of James Jazmines and Felix Salaveria Jr. as we confront the horrifying reality of their enforced disappearances. Recent reports from Karapatan reveal the alarming sequence of events that suggest these abductions are not isolated incidents but are part of …
Desaparecidos (Families of the Disappeared for Justice) assails the virtual banning from commercial screening of the award-winning documentary film “Alipato at Muog” about the abduction and disappearance of activist Jonas Burgos on April 28, 2007. With this ban, Desaparecidos urges everyone who has not yet seen “Alipato at Muog” to watch it at its special …
As Ferdinand Marcos Jr. delivers his third State of the Nation Address on July 22, Desaparecidos, or Families of the Disappeared for Justice, demands answers not only for the persistence but the rapid rise in the number of victims of enforced disappearance in the Philippines. The first major human rights violation under the Marcos Jr. …
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Desaparecidos, an organization of families and friends of victims of enforced disappearance in the Philippines, warmly congratulates Jose Luis “JL” Burgos, as his documentary film “Alipato at Muog” (Flying Embers and a Fortress) makes it as a finalist in Cinemalaya 2024’s full length film category. JL, a member of Desaparecidos, is a filmmaker, visual artist …
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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 …
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 …
QUEZON CITY – Where there is darkness, bear the light. Free Jonas Burgos Movement and Desaparecidos held a symbolic “Sunset Gathering” of families of the desaparecidos (missing) at Bantayog ng mga Bayani this evening. Standing among a number photographs of those abducted and forcibly disappeared, torches and lanterns were lit and held by families, friends, …
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