Member organization: Karapatan

Karapatan condemns threats, harassment vs human rights worker

Karapatan decried the multiple incidents of harassment by state agents against a South Cotabato-based protestant pastor serving as the human rights alliance’s coordinator for Socksargen. Pastor Sadrach Sabella of the United Church of Christ in the Philippines (UCCP) Southeast Mindanao Jurisdiction reported that his family had been receiving disturbing texts and calls and unwanted visits …

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Another political prisoner dies in custody, a day after BBM’s SONA

A day after Ferdinand Marcos Jr. delivered his grandstanding State of the Nation Address, another political prisoner, Ernesto Jude Rimando, died in custody. “We at the Samahan ng Ex-Detainees Laban sa Detensyon at Aresto (SELDA) are angered by the deafening silence of Malacañang and the Department of Justice to our call for the immediate release …

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KARAPATAN: Hidden truths on the human rights situation in PH in Marcos Jr.’s SONA

It is far more important to detect the hidden messages behind Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s third State of the Nation Address (SONA) rather than be deluded into believing that it was all about banishing POGO from our shores and strong rhetoric on the Philippines’ claims on the West Philippine Sea. Marcos Jr. said nothing about the …

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Rights group decries death of political prisoner Ernesto Jude Rimando Jr.

Human rights alliance Karapatan announced the death from liver cancer of political prisoner Ernesto Jude Rimando Jr. at 5:30 a.m. today. Rimando, a long-time labor and peasants rights advocate, was arrested on January 6, 2021 while seeking treatment in Metro Manila for liver cirrhosis and sepsis. Despite his physical condition, he was blindfolded, tortured and …

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Political prisoners conduct nationwide protest fast on Marcos’ 3rd SONA

On Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s third State of the Nation Address today, July 22, 2024, 193 political prisoners are conducting a nationwide protest fast to call for the immediate release of terminally ill Ernesto Jude Rimando Jr., a labor organizer, and 79-year old Rosita Taboy, the oldest political prisoner in the country. Ernesto Jude Rimando has …

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State of the Nation: The Filipino people vs US-Marcos Regime’s Terrorism

Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s regime enters its third year with a repressive machinery replete with the use of terror laws, arrests and detention, bombings and militarization in the countryside. Marcos Jr.’s deadline to his security forces to crush the New People’s Army by year’s end is fueled by pressure from his US imperialist masters to shift …

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100 Negros Political Prisoners to hold Protest Fast on Marcos Jr.’s 3rd State of the Nation Address (SONA)

As President Marcos Jr. is set to deliver his third State of the Nation Address on Monday, 100 political prisoners in the newly-created Negros Island Region will hold a day-long protest fast to amplify their calls for the government to immediately address their human rights concerns. The political prisoners, who will skip eating their three …

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KARAPATAN: The Marcos Jr. regime must stop arresting the innocent

Formal adherence to a set of international rules has never guaranteed substantial compliance. The Philippine government has been a signatory to numerous international human rights accords and has even enacted domestic laws against torture, enforced disappearance and violations of international humanitarian law, but violations continue mainly because of a prevalent culture of impunity shielding the …

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Human dignity disrespected in Philippine jails, says former political prisoners

The Samahan ng Ex Detainees Laban sa Detensyon at Aresto (SELDA), a group of former political prisoners, took exception to an article posted at the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime website saying that “sleeping like sardines” may soon be a thing of the past in Philippine jails. “Better sleeping conditions are not the …

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