Member organization: Karapatan

Karapatan condemns the spate of human rights violations as well as violations of International Humanitarian Law (IHL) perpetrated by State forces in the past few weeks. The violations include the brutal killing of civilians and hors de combat, indiscriminate bombings victimizing civilians and showing a disproportionate use of force, enforced disappearance, illegal arrest and detention …

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KARAPATAN condemns the forced disappearance of activist-writer Nelson Bautista and the illegal arrest of his companion Ademar Etol on trumped-up charges. Bautista, 45 and Etol, 64, were arrested in Barangay Balingasan, Siay, Zamboanga Sibugay by police forces who barged into the house they were staying at around 2 a.m. of January 25, 2024. Bautista has …

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Karapatan condemns the heightened military operations in Panay and Negros islands, where the Armed Forces of the Philippines has been resorting to artillery strikes and aerial bombings that have terrorized the civilian population in the affected areas. In Escalante City, Negros Occidental, the 79th Infantry Battalion of the Philippine Army (IBPA) concocted stories about numerous …

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Karapatan welcomes the guilty verdict handed down by the Supreme Court (SC) on notorious red- and terrorist-tagger Lorraine Badoy-Partosa for indirect contempt. The charge stemmed from Badoy-Partosa’s incendiary comments on social media where she insulted and hurled death threats against Manila Regional Trial Court Branch 19 Judge Marlo Magdoza-Malagar for having dismissed the Department of …

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Continued military harassment has claimed another victim. Eddie Berania, a farmer and barangay kagawad of San Juan Daan, Bulan, Sorsogon died of an apparent suicide on February 25, 2024. His family found him hanging from the roof of his hut on the morning of February 25, after he had been repeatedly threatened and harassed by …

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KARAPATAN condemns the reported extrajudicial killings of five hors de combat in a supposed armed encounter between the New People’s Army (NPA) and combined forces of the Philippine National Police (PNP) and Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP)’s Task Force Bohol and 47th Infantry Battalion of the Philippine Army (IBPA) in Sitio Matin-ao 2, Barangay …

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Karapatan decries the lighter penalties against Navotas police officers involved in the killing of 17-year old Jemboy Baltazar, as the Navotas Regional Trial Court Branch 286 promulgated its decision finding Police Staff Sergeant Gerry Maliban guilty of reckless imprudence resulting in homicide and four others of illegal discharge of firearm, instead of murder. One police …

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Once again, state security forces are playing the game of abduction-fake surrender. Jose Maria Estiller, whose abduction in Sto. Tomas, Batangas on the afternoon of February 20, 2024 by five armed men in plain clothes was captured on CCTV cameras, was reported by the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group of the Philippine National Police (PNP-CIDG) …

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