Member organization: Karapatan

KARAPATAN decries slow-paced trial of victim of planted evidence

KARAPATAN railed against the extremely slow pace with which three political prisoners in Eastern Visayas are being tried for a trumped-up charge of illegal possession of firearms and explosives. Katungod-Sinirangan Bisayas secretary general and KARAPATAN national council member Alexander Philip “Chakoy” Abinguna attended a hearing on January 14, 2025 with two other co-accused, journalist Frenchie …

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KARAPATAN calls on BJMP to rescind repressive memorandum

KARAPATAN decried a memorandum allegedly issued by Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP) regional director JCSupt. Clint Russell Tangeres mandating jail authorities to closely monitor detained “suspected Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) members” for allegedly facilitating fund-raising activities using drug money to finance the electoral campaign of senatorial candidate France Castro, currently ACT …

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Marcos Jr. is peddling lies in desperate bid for UNSC nod

At the Vin d’Honneur in Malacañang yesterday, Pres. Ferdinand Marcos Jr. asked the diplomatic community to support his administration’s bid for membership in the UN Security Council, citing the Philippines’ “rich experience” in “building peace, forging consensus, and finding new paths for cooperation.” Marcos Jr. has repeatedly peddled these lies in a desperate bid to …

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Rights group condemns abduction, arbitrary detention of Bicolano youth in palit-ulo scheme

Rights group Karapatan condemned the abduction and continued arbitrary detention of a Bicolano youth by suspected State security forces, in a bid to pressure the victim’s father to surrender. According to reports from Karapatan-Bicol, Gerald Gestole, 24, and his brother Leo, had just gotten off a public utility vehicle in Barangay Chrysanthemum, San Pedro, Laguna …

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KARAPATAN on recent SC decision on unlawful searches and seizures

Karapatan welcomed the latest Supreme Court (SC) ruling affirming the constitutional right against unlawful searches and seizures. In a decision penned by Senior Associate Justice Marvic Leonen, the SC ruled that search warrants must particularly describe the place to be searched. Otherwise, the warrant is deemed a general warrant which is prohibited by the constitution. …

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Arrest of three Negros development workers forebode more trumped-up charges, unjust arrests in 2025

KARAPATAN condemned the arrests of three development workers in Negros, warning that such arrests lay down the Marcos Jr. government’s continuing policy of filing trumped-up charges of financing terrorism and terror law charges in 2025. Federico Salvilla, Perla Jaleco and Dharyll Albañez, former and current staff workers of Paghidaet sa Kauswagan Development Group Inc. (PDG), …

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Rights group calls for greater vigilance in 2025, as IHL violations mark end of past year

Rights group KARAPATAN called for greater vigilance in 2025, as the past year ended with a series of violations of human rights and international humanitarian law by the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and Philippine National Police (PNP) which belied the posturing of the Marcos Jr. government that his administration has a “better” record …

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KARAPATAN denounces continuing judicial harassment by NTF-ELCAC

KARAPATAN decried the continuing judicial harassment by former NTF-ELCAC vice chair Hermogenes Esperon Jr. of its officers as well as those of the Rural Missionaries of the Philippines (RMP) and Gabriela. Esperon, with the NTF-ELCAC’s backing, had filed a trumped-up case of perjury against ten KARAPATAN National Council members, two officers of the RMP and …

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Duterte Panagutin network: DUTERTE AND HIS ALLIES MUST BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY

Campaigns / By / June 7, 2025

The Duterte Panagutin Network strongly supports the recent recommendation of the House of Representatives Quad Committee to file charges of crimes against humanity against former President Rodrigo Duterte and his key allies. Victims and their families, along with human rights organizations, have long maintained that the killings are part of a larger orchestrated scheme, which …

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Tulungan n’yo po kaming mahanap sina James and Felix, ngayong Pasko

Photo: Cora Jazmines, wife of James Jazmines, distributes flyers in a bus terminal of Bicol-bound buses (Dec 21) QUEZON CITY — “Sana, makasama na sila ng kanilang pamilya ngayong Pasko. Tulungan n’yo po kaming hanapin sila.” With just a few days before Christmas day, families and friends of desaparecidos, together with rights advocates, distributed leaflets …

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