Member organization: SELDA

Samahan ng mga Ex-Detainees Laban sa Detensyon at para sa Amnestiya

Break free from pork: political prisoners suggest alternative use of pork

Political prisoners today launched “Break free from pork”, a nationwide protest against the pork barrel system, to join hands with the rest of the Filipino people calling for the abolition of the pork barrel system.  From Metro Manila, Bicol, Bohol, Cebu, Misamis Oriental, and Bukidnon,  political prisoners’ action ranged from noise barrage, fasting, wearing of …

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SELDA members troop to Malacanang, assail Noynoy Aquino’s inaction on RA 10368

Members of the Samahan ng Ex-detainees laban sa Detensyon at Aresto (SELDA) together with the surviving victims of human rights violations during martial law and their relatives trooped to Chino Roces (formerly Mendiola) Bridge to express their grievances and assailed the continued inaction of the Aquino administration in implementing the Human Rights Victims Recognition and …

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Whatever happened to the Board to process claims of martial law victims?

Rights group SELDA (Samahan ng Ex-Detainees Laban sa Detensyon at Aresto) questioned the Aquino government’s failure to form the Human Rights Victims Claims Board which will process the application for reparation and recognition of martial law victims.   “It has been two months since Pres. Aquino signed the bill into law. What is taking the …

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Martial Law victims denounce PCGG chair’s declaration to give up claims

“Malicious, irresponsible and anti-people”  Amid the good news of the ratification of the bill to compesante martial law victims, members of the human rights group SELDA (Samahan ng Ex-Detainees Laban sa Detensyon at Aresto) deplored the “malicious, irresponsible and anti-people” statements made by Presidential Commission on Good Government (PCGG) chairman Andres Bautista over the weekend …

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What should we expect from the Aquino regime about the stalled peace talks and the repression of detained NDF peace consultants?

by ALAN JAZMINES, detained NDF consultant PNP Custodial Center, Camp Crame, 29 March 2012 We wonder if the administration of Benigno S. Aquino III does enough of serious consideration and work to really promote and push the peace talks, and if indeed it really is interested in the peace process at all. Several indications seem …

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GMA is P-Noy’s smokescreen for rights violations under his administration

“PRESIDENT NOYNOY AQUINO conveniently uses GMA as a shield by endlessly harping on her crimes and wrongdoings as a subterfuge to evade taking responsibility for human rights violations committed by his administration and its inability to solve any of the country’s basic problems. No amount of political manipulation or attempt to project himself as a …

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SELDA Welcomes House Resolution for Immediate Release of Political Prisoners, Urge P-NOY to Release PPs this December

Former political prisoners led by the Samahan ng Ex-detainees Laban sa Detensyon at Aresto today welcomed the recently filed resolution of some 38 congresspersons strongly urging Pres. Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III “to grant general, unconditional, and omnibus amnesty to political prisoners…who are victims of political repression and charged or convicted of political and/or common crimes …

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