KARAPATAN deplores continuing attempts by the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) to vilify Jonila Castro and Jhed Tamano, both survivors of abduction, torture, enforced disappearance, coercion and other crimes perpetrated by state agents. Jonila and Jhed are environmental activists and community organizers affiliated with AKAP KA-Manila Bay who were kidnapped …
KARAPATAN deplores the latest examples of the Marcos Jr. regime’s weaponization of the twin terror laws – Republic Act No. 11479 or the Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA) of 2020 and Republic Act No. 10168 of the Terrorism Financing Prevention and Suppression Act of 2012 – to criminalize dissent and demonize activists. On January 19, 2024, the …
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KARAPATAN condemns the arrest by anti-riot police of six protesters at the Labor Day rally near the US Embassy. The arrests came in the wake of a statement from the Philippine National Police (PNP) that the rallies marking Labor Day were “peaceful.” Said Karapatan secretary general Cristina Palabay, “The statement is ironic as it is …
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Karapatan extends its condolences to the family and friends of political prisoner Antonio Legaspi, who died of a heart attack on April 19, 2024 at the age of 74. Legaspi was arrested on May 26, 2023 with his wife Rosita Taboy at their home in San Jose del Monte where they were longtime residents. Antonio …
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On International Labor Day 2024, KARAPATAN joins thousands of workers who marched to the streets to demand higher wages, job security and the recognition of their right to unionize, among others, and raise calls to stop the attacks against workers and the people under the Marcos Jr. government. The Marcos Jr. government’s refusal to provide …
On the first year of disappearance of Dexter Capuyan and Gene Roz Jamil “Bazoo” de Jesus, the Families of the Disappeared for Justice (Desaparecidos) joins Dexter and Bazoo’s families in their continuing search for their loved ones. As we have tirelessly done with our own missing kin, we are one with them in asking: Where …
Human rights group Karapatan reiterated its call to dismiss cases against other political prisoners detained and charged with trumped-up cases on the basis of faulty and unjust search warrants after the Supreme Court’s affirmation of the Court of Appeal’s decision to void the search warrants used against activists Reina Mae Nasino, Ram Carlo Bautista, and …
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KARAPATAN expresses its staunchest solidarity with the striking jeepney drivers and operators led by Piston who are airing their grievances ahead of the big gathering of workers’ groups on May 1, 2024. Jeepney drivers and operators have been opposing the Marcos Jr. government’s jeepney phaseout scheme masquerading as a jeepney modernization program. Under this scheme, …
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KARAPATAN denounces the recently-reported indictment of two Southern Tagalog young activists for alleged violation of Republic Act No. 10168 or the Terrorism Financing Prevention and Suppression Act of 2012. The ridiculous accusation of terrorist financing levelled against Southern Tagalog youth activists Fritz Jay Labiano and Adrian Paul Tagle is but the latest act by the …
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Today, we bear witness to environmental defender Eco Dangla’s description of his ordeal, from his ordeal to the torture that he endured. On Sunday, April 28, 2024, we recall the 17th year since activist Jonas Burgos was abducted and the first year after the enforced disappearance of indigenous people’s advocates Dexter Capuyan and Gene Roz …
