Member organization: Karapatan

No Tears for Enrile: The Architect and Enabler of Martial Law Repression and Corruption

The Samahan ng mga Ex-Detainee Laban sa Detensyon at Aresto (SELDA), an organization of former political prisoners since Marcos Sr. martial law, has no tears to shed for the passing of Juan Ponce Enrile. For thousands of victims of the Marcos dictatorship, Enrile will forever be remembered neither as a patriot nor a statesman, but …

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Rights group scores violent, unjust reprisals vs Negros detainees

The Samahan ng Ex-Detainees Laban sa Detensyon at Aresto (SELDA), an organization of former political prisoners, vehemently condemns the “violent and unjust acts of reprisal being unleashed” by Warden Crisyrel Awe against detainees in the Negros Occidental District Jail (NODJ) in Bago City and called on the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) to look into …

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Court denies political prisoner’s furlough to attend mother’s funeral, cites security risks

The Regional Trial Court (RTC) Branch 7 in Bayugan City, Agusan del Sur has denied an urgent motion for furlough filed by political prisoner and peasant organizer Virgie Valdez, who sought temporary leave to attend her mother’s wake and burial. The court’s decision upheld the opposition from the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP), …

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CARMMA on the 7th anniversary of Imelda Marcos’ graft conviction

Campaigns / By / November 11, 2025

The Campaign Against the Return of the Marcoses and Martial Law (CARMMA) marks the seventh anniversary of Imelda Marcos’ conviction on seven counts of graft amid the raging corruption scandal in the country. The ruling, handed down on November 9, 2018 by the Sandiganbayan, found the late dictator Marcos’ widow guilty of seven counts of …

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On the Marcos Family’s Unpaid Estate Tax and the BIR Charges vs. DPWH Engineers: Corruption and impunity come from the top

The Samahan ng Ex-Detainees Laban sa Detensyon at Aresto (SELDA), an organization of former political prisoners, asserts that the Marcos family’s unpaid ₱203-billion estate tax remains the clearest symbol of entrenched impunity in the country. This comes in light of the Bureau of Internal Revenue’s (BIR) recent filing of tax evasion charges against former Department …

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KARAPATAN: No obstruction, no compromise on Bato’s arrest — justice long overdue for victims

Calling it “way long overdue,” human rights alliance Karapatan said there should be no obstruction and no compromise in the implementation of the warrant of arrest of Senator Ronald “Bato” dela Rosa by the International Criminal Court (ICC), to ensure that long-delayed justice is finally served to the victims of the Duterte administration’s war on …

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Denial of rights worker’s court motion, a blatant denial of right to due process

Human rights alliance KARAPATAN denounced the decision of the Regional Trial Court Branch 21 in Laoang, Northern Samar, which denied the motion to quash filed by political prisoner and KARAPATAN National Council member Alexander Philip “Chakoy” Abinguña, even as it granted the same motion of journalist Frenchie Mae Cumpio due to an invalid arrest. “The …

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Former political prisoners, rights groups urge probe into rights violations vs “persons deprived of liberty” in Negros Occidental Jail

The Samahan ng Ex-Detainees Laban sa Detensyon at Aresto (SELDA), and organization of former political prisoners, together with KARAPATAN and other human rights advocates, held a protest action today, November 6, 2025, in front of the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology National Headquarters in Quezon City to demand an immediate and independent investigation into …

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KARAPATAN assails NTF-ELCAC intrusion in UST forum: Hands off schools, stop red-tagging and terror-mongering in campuses!

Human rights alliance KARAPATAN strongly denounced the attempted participation of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) in a University of Santo Tomas (UST) research colloquium, calling it a brazen infiltration of academic spaces and a direct threat to academic freedom and the right to express. “NTF-ELCAC has no place in …

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