Int’l Human Rights Day countdown: Tuwid na daan, wakasan TODAY is the International Day of Solidarity with Political Prisoners. Declared by the International League of People’s Struggles, it is being observed by people’s organizations here and abroad to mobilize support for justice and freedom for political prisoners all over the world.
Int’l Human Rights Day countdown: Tuwid na daan, wakasan “Whoever hails to continue BS Aquino’s gruesome trail, the ‘tuwid na daan’ (righteous path), is as monstrous as Aquino and his soldiers," Cristina Palabay, Karapatan secretary general said today, nine days before the commemoration of the International Human Rights Day. “The path is awashed with the …
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Int’l Human Rights Day countdown: tuwid na daan wakasan “We call on the Aquino regime to enforce the warrant of arrest against the members of the Magahat-Bagani paramilitary groups involved in the September 1 massacre of Alcadev executive director Emerito Samarca and Lumad leaders Dionel Campos and Juvello Sinzo. It has been three months since …
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The Quezon City Regional Trial Court-Branch 100 yesterday acquitted political prisoner Eduardo Serrano from the charges of multiple murder and multiple frustrated murder. Judge Editha G. Mina-Aguda stated in her decision that, "… in the view of the failure of the People to prove the guilt of the accused beyond reasonable doubt, judgement is hereby …
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The Kababaihan sa Sining at Bagong Sibol na Kamalayan (Kasibulan)–an organization of women artists, human rights group Karapatan, poets from Kilometer 64, and relatives of political prisoners under Hustisya, opened the exhibit Wednesday with nineteen (19) portraits of women political prisoners.
"The BS Aquino government attempts to hide the images of extreme poverty and peoples’ resistance in Metro Manila from the APEC delegates as its armed forces intensify operations to silence the people,” Cristina Palabay, Karapatan secretary general as reports of rights violations reached Karapatan.
“Karapatan condemns the psy-ops (psychological operations) of the BS Aquino regime and the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), which has become desperate and abominable in an attempt to obfuscate and distort facts on the human rights violations against the Lumad and the Filipino people. The regime expects to turn public opinion in its favor …
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We strongly condemn the recent burning of our ALCADEV satellite school in Sitio Km. 30, Brgy. Padiay, Sibagat, Agusan del Sur! At around 2:00 in the morning of November 12, six unidentified men burned down the teachers’ cottage destroying books, school supplies, instructional and learning materials, stocks of rice, power generator set, audio-video equipment, sewing …
As the Lumad at Liwasang Bonifacio expect Manila-style dismantling of the Manilakbayan camp tomorrow, November 13, report coming from the Karapatan-Caraga region says that the teachers’ cottage of ALCADEV in Brgy. Padiay, Sibagat, Agusan del Sur was torched at 2 a.m., today by men believed to be under the command of the 23rd Infantry Battalion-Philippine …
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“Scared to reveal the skeletons in the closet, Colonel Benjamin Hao?" Cristina Palabay, Karapatan secretary general said in response to Army Spokesperson Col. Hao’s threat to deport the foreigners who joined the International Fact Finding Mission (IFFM) held in Surigao del Sur, where the September 1 massacre and other military and paramilitary atrocities were committed. …
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