By DEE AYROSO
Month: July 2021
Perpetrators of Bloody Sunday went for the kill, says expert
“Targets are mostly chest – where vital internal organs are located including the heart and the lungs and can be deadly.”
Global mission holds PH government accountable for gross human rights abuses
“The State itself is directly involved in planning, implementing and sanctioning widespread human rights violations.”
Sweden-based forensic experts now subjected to cyberattacks
“The pen-testing on Qurium’s website proves that the cyberattackers are undaunted, bolstering our belief that such actions are state-sanctioned and part of the systematic efforts in silencing and intimidating the Philippine media.”
Veteran journo Nonoy Espina writes 30
“Like many journalists, he was materially poor. But in his devotion to the profession and our people he was, as Danny Fabella sang, hindi pangkaraniwang tao.”
DOJ junks police’s plea to revive charges vs youth activists
The groups are firm that the filing of charges against them and their members are pure harassment as these charges were later dismissed by the courts.
‘Not your ordinary cookbook’ | Stories, recipes of women amid lockdown launched
“A sip of hot soup can recharge an exhausted body. But what if there is nothing to sip?”
‘Anti-communist task force has no credibility to destroy’ – rights lawyer
“Release your incontrovertible evidence in public.”
#UndoingDuterte | Food remains out of reach for the poor
Families coped using different strategies, including purchasing food on credit, borrowing food from relatives or neighbors, while some adults reported that they limited their food intake in favor of children.
A year into terror law, ‘meager’ assets of rights defenders frozen
Critics of the anti-terror law have long assailed that it will be used to silence dissent. A year on, progressives said the law has left bank accounts of non-profit organizations and political prisoners frozen on allegations that they are financing or supporting terrorism.
Duterte’s predatory cyberwar against press freedom
These attacks underscore once again how far the Duterte administration can go in silencing the press. The recent cyberattacks are not isolated from other forms of assault on the Philippine media. These are part of Duterte’s arsenal of weapons as a “predator of press freedom,” an apt description from the Reporters Without Borders.