As Reina Mae Nasino and her family lay Baby River to rest today, we join them in deep mourning and indignation. There are no words to describe this terrible loss but a grave and cruel injustice not only to Baby River, Reina Mae Nasino, and their grieving family — but above all, the Baby River’s …
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Karapatan denounces the blatant and continuing acts of cruelty, inhuman and degrading treatment of political prisoner Reina Mae Nasino. We believe that these are not mere random displays of heartlessness and barbarity; these are policy actions by no less than the Duterte government which has effected the highly questionable arrests and case against Reina Mae …
The reduction of political prisoner Reina Mae Nasino’s furlough is a “merciless act of torture and injustice” human rights alliance Karapatan stated, as the group led various human rights advocates indignation protest today at the Commission on Human Rights Liwasang Diokno to denounce the Manila Regional Trial Court (RTC) Branch 47’s decision to lessen Nasino’s …
Granting Reina Mae Nasino a three-day furlough is a welcome act of compassion and reprieve for a mother who has already suffered too much cruelty — from an unjust imprisonment due to trumped-up charges, to being separated from her child right after giving birth, and now, the loss of her child. This court decision may …
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Reina Mae Nasino endured her pregnancy behind bars, imprisoned over trumped-up charges. She pleaded to courts to grant her temporary humanitarian release for the delicate condition of bringing a child to the world amid the onslaught of the COVID-19 pandemic in the country’s overcongested prisons — and yet the courts refused to listen.
We demand the unconditional release of Reina Mae Nasino from Prison and the dropping of all charges filed against her!
In commemoration of the World Day Against the Death Penalty today, October 10, human rights alliance Karapatan renewed its call to oppose the proposed measures seeking the reimposition of capital punishment in the country. Karapatan Deputy Secretary General Roneo Clamor asserted that “bringing back death penalty in the Philippines — especially under a murderous regime …
Karapatan renews its call for the immediate release of 23-year old Reina Mae Nasino, following the death of her 3-month old baby around 8:50 p.m. last night, October 9, 2020, due to acute respiratory distress syndrome, at the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit of the Philippine General Hospital (PGH).
As the 45th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) adopted a resolution on the Philippines today, Philippine human rights alliance Karapatan challenged the Philippine government to “allow the access of UN human rights mechanisms in the country to assess domestic accountability mechanisms if they are truly working and if they have nothing …
Human rights group Karapatan asserted that an independent and impartial investigation by the United Nations (UN) human rights mechanism and other platforms engaged in human rights issues in the European Union (EU) on the situation of the indigenous peoples seeking sanctuary at the Haran Center run by the United Church of Christ in the Philippines …
