BREAKING NEWS: NDFP consultant Adelberto Silva was released this afternoon from MMDJ-SICA 1. While we welcome Silva’s release, we are concerned over PNP Custodial Center Warden Arnel Apud’s callousness in facilitating the release of NDFP consultants Benito and Wilma Tiamzon, despite the issuance of release orders for them in the four local courts. Release Benito …
BREAKING NEWS: NDFP consultant Adelberto Silva released Read More »
We, National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDF) peace consultants, who are being released today, and others expecting to be released the next few days, in time for the resumption of formal peace talks with the present Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) and, in the spirit of overcoming a long-standing main barrier to the peace talks, …
Most local courts have already issued favorable orders granting the parallel motions for release on bail for nineteen (18) detained peace consultants of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines and protected persons under the Joint Agreement on Safety and Immunity Guarantees (JASIG) and two political prisoners for humanitarian release. The urgent motions were filed …
Consultants’ Expected Release Crucial to Resumption of Peace Talks Read More »
For the millions of Filipinos who overthrew the Marcos dictatorship and drove it out of power, Marcos is no hero. For the millions of Filipinos impoverished through sky-rocketing inflation and unemployment rates combined with gargantuan foreign debt while the Marcoses and their cronies siphoned public funds into their vaults, Marcos is no hero. For the …
Marcos is no hero, martial law imprints should be spurned Read More »
Soldiers shot dead a woman farmer in Monkayao on Monday, as human rights violations escalate in military operations by the Philippine Army’s 10th Infantry Division in various communities in Compostela Valley. Reports from Karapatan-Southern Mindanao said that last August 7, 19-year old Rose Em Sayson was shot by soldiers who mistaken her …
Woman dead as hundreds displaced in mil-ops in Comval Read More »
It is lamentable that the Supreme Court did not grant the motion for temporary release of the eight (8) detained peace consultants of the NDFP and two political prisoners for humanitarian release to directly facilitate their release. We also take exception to the limitations set by the SC order on the participation of NDFP consultants …
KARAPATAN Statement on August 2, 2016 SC Reso, release of political prisoners Read More »
"We dare the Duterte government to arrest paramilitary butchers Alde ‘Butsoy’ Salusad and his father, Benjamin and serve their warrant. In fact, all the named perpetrators in the killings of Lumad and peasant activists should immediately be arrested," Karapatan and other progressive organizations called today on the AFP’s continuing attacks against civilians through Oplan Bayanihan. …
“Our loved ones should be released on just and humanitarian grounds. What is taking the Duterte administration so long?” relatives of political prisoners said today.
"He is lying." This is what Ebao Sulang, father of slain farmer during the April 1 dispersal in Kidapawan City, North Cotabato, said on military witness Charlie Pasco as he filed a perjury case against Pasco at the Department of Justice (DoJ).
