Human rights alliance KARAPATAN and HUSTISYA (Victims United for Justice) express their profoundest solidarity with press freedom advocates as they commemorate the 16th anniversary of the Ampatuan massacre that claimed the lives of 58 people, including 32 media workers. The Ampatuan massacre of November 23, 2009 stands as the single deadliest event for journalists worldwide …
SELDA, an organization of former political prisoners since Marcos’ martial law, assailed the latest decision by the United States Supreme Court allowing the Philippine government to have control over US$40 million (or Php 2.4 billion) in Marcos ill-gotten funds now being held by Merril Lynch, an American investment management firm. The funds, originally worth US$2 …
Like his master Ferdinand Marcos Sr., Juan Ponce Enrile will be bestowed an undeserved hero’s burial. To the members of the Samahan ng mga Ex-Detainee Laban sa Detensyon at Aresto (SELDA), honors will be showered on Enrile who should be remembered both as a key figure in the planning of martial law and as Marcos …
Karapatan human rights alliance took exception to statements by acting police chief Lt. Gen. Melencio Nartatez Jr. contrasting the “peaceful” Iglesia ni Cristo protest from November 16 to 17 to the “violent” anti-corruption protests of September 21. “The killing of two individuals and the arbitrary arrest, detention and torture of 216 others, including 91 minors, …
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Human rights alliance Karapatan decried the recent wave of attacks against land rights defenders in Negros Occidental and Cagayan Valley, provinces which were impacted by typhoons Tino and Uwan. Karapatan’s chapters reported the arbitrary arrest of peasant organizer Stalin Valencia in Cagayan Valley and the killing of Joan Escuadro, a member of the Asosasyon sang …
Today, November 14, 2025 marks one year to the day Corazon Jazmines, wife of missing activist James Jazmines, filed a petition for writs of amparo and habeas data before the Supreme Court, but she and her family have yet to see a glimmer of the justice and accountability they seek. It took around nine months …
The Samahan ng mga Ex-Detainee Laban sa Detensyon at Aresto (SELDA) condemns in the strongest terms the harassment of former political prisoner Adora Faye de Vera, charging that the state should instead train its guns on corrupt bureaucrats. The 69-year old De Vera, a prolific writer, poet and researcher, reported to SELDA that she was …
The Samahan ng mga Ex-Detainee Laban sa Detensyon at Aresto (SELDA), an organization of former political prisoners since Marcos Sr. martial law, has no tears to shed for the passing of Juan Ponce Enrile. For thousands of victims of the Marcos dictatorship, Enrile will forever be remembered neither as a patriot nor a statesman, but …
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The Samahan ng Ex-Detainees Laban sa Detensyon at Aresto (SELDA), an organization of former political prisoners, vehemently condemns the “violent and unjust acts of reprisal being unleashed” by Warden Crisyrel Awe against detainees in the Negros Occidental District Jail (NODJ) in Bago City and called on the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) to look into …
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The Regional Trial Court (RTC) Branch 7 in Bayugan City, Agusan del Sur has denied an urgent motion for furlough filed by political prisoner and peasant organizer Virgie Valdez, who sought temporary leave to attend her mother’s wake and burial. The court’s decision upheld the opposition from the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP), …
