The Quezon City Regional Trial Court yesterday, February 9, conducted the hearing for the trumped-up charge of kidnapping against NDFP peace consultants Wilma Austria and Benito Tiamzon inside Camp Crame.
Two weeks and two presidential speeches ago, the US-Aquino regime continues to dodge the more important questions on what really happened in Mamasapano, Maguindanao, especially the involvement of the US government through its troops operating in the Philippines.
“BS Aquino’s ‘business as usual’ and calloused attitude reared its ugly head once again. This time, on his own men killed in Mamasapano. He has shown the same insensitivity to the victims of human rights violations under his rule; and, the same indifference to the victims of typhoon Yolanda,” said Cristina Palabay, Karapatan secretary general.
"Actions speak louder than words. The arrest of another peace consultant, Rogelio Posadas, and Gen. Emmanuel Bautista’s possible appointment as chair of Aquino’s peace panel with the National Democratic Front of the Philippines contradict whatever hints of openness Aquino is trying to put on with regards to peace,” Karapatan Secretary General Cristina Palabay said.
We at Karapatan Alliance for the Advancement of People’s Rights – Philippines express our full support and solidarity with the peoples’ lawyers in the Philippines in their call to stop the attacks against human rights lawyers and to render justice to the lawyers who were ruthlessly killed and those who became subjects of attacks because …
Political prisoners’ nationwide hunger strike/fast ended on January 19, where almost all of the 491 political detainees in more than 50 jails took part from January 15-19. The political prisoners’ hunger strike/fast was the highlight of the “Free All Political Prisoners” campaign held during the Papal visit to dramatize before the public the plight of …
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Dear Pope Francis, As you made your journey back to Rome, you left us Filipinos with rejuvenated faith and hope, including me. On behalf of the families of the 491 political prisoners in the Philippines, I humbly thank you.
Human rights advocates from the United States, Canada, and Austria held solidarity fasts and sent letters to Pope Francis urging him to support the “poor and oppressed” in the Philippines, by his intercession for the release of political prisoners and for the resumption of the peace talks between the Philippine government and the National …
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Karapatan welcomed and fully appreciated the speech of Pope Francis as an expression of his solidarity with the real and concrete issues of the poor and oppressed in Philippine society.
