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KARAPATAN decried the arrest of activist Myrna Cruz-Abraham on January 27, 2025, in San Rafael, Bulacan. Karapatan secretary general Cristina Palabay said it is Cruz-Abraham’s second arrest, citing her arrest in 2010 on similar trumped-up charges, which were later dismissed. “It was during the national election campaign period in 2010 when Cruz-Abraham was abducted, and …

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KARAPATAN decried the filing of trumped-up terrorist financing charges against five Cagayan Valley-based activists, noting that there has been an uptick in such cases in the run-up to the visit to the Philippines of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), a global body that purportedly sets international standards to prevent money laundering and terrorist financing. …

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KARAPATAN welcomed the dismissal of the terrorist financing charges against Jazmin Jerusalem, executive director of Leyte Center for Development Inc. (LCDe), a multi-awarded 36-year old development NGO. The complainant, Police Master Sergeant Divine Grace Songalia of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG)-Region 8 alleged that LCDe was used as a “front to channel funds …

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After the recent court hearing on the trumped up charges against four peasant organizers at the Regional Trial Court Branch 47 in San Fernando, Pampanga, KARAPATAN condemned the elements of the Philippine National Police (PNP) who planted evidence and staged a crime scene to incriminate the activists they had targeted for arbitrary arrest and detention. …

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KARAPATAN deplored the existence of virtual martial law in many villages targeted by counter-insurgency operations which have spawned multiple human rights violations and violations of international humanitarian law. “Most of the reported incidents occurred in Negros and Bicol, the regions most battered by human rights violations, with Karapatan monitoring at least 22 incidents in January …

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KARAPATAN renewed its calls to the Committee on Justice of the House of Representatives to consider its proposals on the content of a pending bill classifying extrajudicial killings as a heinous crime, emphasizing the need to immediately pass the long overdue legislation. The House Committee on Justice, which sponsored House Bill No. 10986 in October …

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KARAPATAN deplored the double standard of treatment it observed as the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP) swiftly took action in rushing moneyed and powerful persons such as detained racketeer and human trafficker Apollo Quiboloy to the Rizal Medical Center for pneumonia, and later, to a private hospital of his choice, while it dragged …

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Human rights alliance KARAPATAN is in full solidarity with the People’s Protest Against Poverty, Corruption and Impunity on January 31st at Liwasang Bonifacio in Manila, as it calls on all human rights advocates to conduct protests in various parts of the country. Organized by the Taumbayan Ayaw sa Magnanakaw at Abusado Network Alliance (TAMA NA), …

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As the House of Representatives’ Quad Committee investigating Duterte’s drug war geared for its 13th hearing tomorrow, KARAPATAN reiterated its call for the committee to pursue its probe to include the extrajudicial killings of political activists by Rodrigo Duterte’s death squads. “In the Quadcomm’s past 12 hearings,” said KARAPATAN deputy secretary general Maria Sol Taule, …

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