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), …
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 …
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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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 …
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 …
Tulungan n’yo po kaming mahanap sina James and Felix, ngayong Pasko Read More »
Karapatan welcomes but views as long overdue the recommendation of the House of Representatives Quad Committee to file crimes against humanity charges against former Pres. Rodrigo Duterte, Sens. Ronald ‘Bato’ dela Rosa and Christopher ‘Bong’ Go, former PNP chiefs Oscar Albayalde and Debold Sinas and former police colonels Royina Garma and Edilberto Leonardo as well …
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Human rights alliance KARAPATAN joined migrants rights advocates and other human rights defenders in welcoming Mary Jane Veloso, with news of her imminent transfer from Indonesia to the Philippines, and renewed its call to Pres. Ferdinand Marcos Jr. to immediately grant her executive clemency upon her return. “It would be the height of insensitivity to …
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KARAPATAN welcomed the ruling of Quezon City Regional Trial Court Branch 306 Presiding Judge Dolly Rose Prado in favor of broadcast journalist Atom Araullo who filed a civil suit against Lorraine Badoy-Partosa and Jeffrey Celiz, anchors of “Laban Kasama ng Bayan,” a red-tagging program aired by SMNI News Channel and republished through SMNI social media …
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KARAPATAN condemned the unjust and wrongful decision of Palawan Regional Trial Court Branch 51 convicting six activists of illegal possession of firearms, ammunition and explosives. The activists — Glendhyl Malabanan, Jenny Ann Bautista, Ronces Paragoso, Benner Rimbuwan, Joelito Tanilon and Awing Lumpat — were on a fact-finding mission when they were illegally arrested at a …
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Hustisya, an organization of victims of human rights violations and kin, call for the immediate and unconditional release of Tomas Dominado, who is currently detained at Pototan Jail in Iloilo, despite his serious and worsening health condition. His continued detention under dire conditions is a grave affront to human dignity and a clear violation of …
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