Member organization: Karapatan

Karapatan calls for release of arrested anti-pork activist, indigenous people’s leader in Surigao City

“Malacañang is a factory of trumped-up charges against activists and those who are demanding that BS Aquino be held accountable for the presidential pork aka DAP,” said Cristina Palabay, Karapatan secretary general when the human rights organization received reports yesterday on the arrest of an anti-pork activist and an indigenous people’s leader in Surigao City.  …

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Arrest of Palparan an indictment of the AFP hierarchy

Not contended with the exaggerated security measures, the call for transfer to military custody or additional deployment of military in the jail to secure him, a group in the military under the “Free Jovito Palparan Movement” now says they are ready to ‘take the bullet for Palparan’.

Palparan’s “I value my life” statement angers victims and kin

"This is a historic day for all victims of human rights violations," Karapatan Secretary General Cristina Palabay said yesterday as the group saw through that Ret. Maj. Jovito Palparan Jr. is brought to Bulacan Provincial Jail from the court hearing at the Malolos Regional Trial Court. 

Victims, relatives and rights groups calls for vigilance vs. Palparan’s maneuvers

Even before the trial has started, the BS Aquino government and the AFP have expressed exaggerated concern for The Butcher Palparan—his safety and security, the so-called trial by publicity and on the day before Palparan faces the Court, the Malacañang statement that Palparan is “innocent until proven guilty.”  “The bias is obvious. We hope that …

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BS Aquino hears his own murmurs, not the people’s voice

“Where does BS Aquino pluck his ideas? First, he says he is thinking of a second term through Cha-Cha (Charter Change). Second, he says there are no more ‘berdugos’ in the AFP. Which and whose voices does Aquino hear?” remarked Cristina Palabay, secretary general of Karapatan.