Youth activists Guiller Martin Cadano, Gerald Salonga, both graduates of the University of the Philippines, and Edward Lanzanas, from a peasant family heeded the call of the times to serve the people. They offered the vitality of their youth to serve the poor farmers as they work for a bright future, a better country. …
Karapatan welcomed and fully appreciated the speech of Pope Francis as an expression of his solidarity with the real and concrete issues of the poor and oppressed in Philippine society.
Statement of the Political Prisoners at Camp Bagong Diwa January 15, 2015 For five days before the visit of Pope Francis I to our country, we, political prisoners at the Special Intensive Care Area 1 Jail in Camp Bagong Diwa, have been on partial hunger strike to express our urgent plea for freedom, justice and …
Foul reactionary and repressive moves of jail authorities against our hunger strike Read More »
Health Action for Human Rights or HAHR is a group of health professionals and other volunteers, providing health services to politically marginalized groups in areas of conflict and to political prisoners.
“Dear Pope Francis, sana makalaya si Papa Kennedy. Sana Mabigyan ng hustisya si Mama Recca. Mabait sila at tumulong sa mga tao. Salamat Pope Francis. (Dear Pope Francis, I hope Papa Kennedy will be released [from prison]. I also hope that justice be given to Mama Recca. They are both good people and helped many …
Father and 7-year old son victims of injustice write to Pope Francis Read More »
Karapatan today asked Pope Francis to see the political prisoners, especially those at the Special Intensive Care Area 1-Camp Bagong Diwa who are on their eighth day of hunger strike-fasting. Karapatan made the request after the jail warden rejected twice the entry of the political prisoners’ physician to check on their condition.
“My son has been in jail for too long. The justice system is too slow. I hope that during Pope Francis’ visit here in the Philippines, His Holiness could to help us in our call for the release of my son and other political prisoners,” Mrs. Zenaida Guray said.
Karapatan welcomes Pope Francis, as he embarks on his four-day visit to the Philippines. His messages on the need for the institution of the Catholic Church to be among the poor and to stand for the poor and oppressed resonate among us human rights workers, especially as we bear witness to the continuing assault on …
Pope Francis, stand with us for peace and justice Read More »
On the reservations of the BJMP to our request that the food budget supposedly for us, political prisoners at the BJMP-SICA 1 Jail, be donated to typhoon victims.
