Member organization: Hustisya

Victims of Arroyo Regime United for Justice

“Who’s stopping visits to political prisoners this Christmas?” rights group laments

Rights group Hustisya lamented the reported disapproval of their requests for friends and supporters to visit political prisoners days before Christmas. “We are disheartened that we were not able to hold our regular Paskuhan with the political prisoners. We cannot help but ask, who’s stopping spending simple Christmas gatherings with them?” said Evangeline Hernandez, Hustisya …

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Women artists, rights activists mount exhibit for women political prisoners

The Kababaihan sa Sining at Bagong Sibol na Kamalayan (Kasibulan)–an organization of women artists, human rights group Karapatan, poets from Kilometer 64, and relatives of political prisoners under Hustisya, opened the exhibit Wednesday with nineteen (19) portraits of women political prisoners.  

Killings continue as the case of Tentorio and Capion remain in the dustbin

"Four years after Fr. Fausto Tentorio was killed on October 17, 2011, the schools he helped build for the Lumad are now the targets of military operations and are targets for closure. Three years after the Capion massacre on October 18,  four more massacres followed. Meanwhile, the cases filed against the perpetrators of the killing …

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