Human rights group Karapatan denounces the Philippine National Police’s involvement in framing four activists, highlighting the use of staged crime scenes and planted evidence in their unlawful arrest and detention.
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In La Union, fisherfolks forced to ‘surrender’ in exchange for ayuda
Ilocos Human Rights Alliance (IHRA), a local chapter of human rights group Karapatan, reported on January 20 that seven alleged soldiers in plainclothes were going around with a list of 30 current and former members of Timek ken Namnama Dagiti Babassit a Mangngalap ti La Union (TIMEK La Union), forcing them to “register” their organization.
Following arrest of development workers, PDG reports surveillance
Two men on board a motorcycle arrived outside the compound of Paghida-et sa Kauswagan Development Groun (PDG) in Kabankalan, Negros Occidental, at approximately 9:30 a.m. One of them took photographs of the vicinity using a mobile phone, while the driver remained on standby.
Negros-based NGO calls for CHR probe into the arrest of their workers
“The arrest and harassment of development workers not only undermine their ability to serve vulnerable communities but also erode the democratic freedoms enshrined in our Constitution,” said PDG in the letter.
P23 wage hike an ‘insult’ to Northern Mindanao workers, labor group says
Bulatlat gathered the wage orders issued by RTWPB Northern Mindanao in the past years and found out that the most recent wage hike is the lowest increase to be implemented since 2018, specifically in the non-agriculture sector.
Soldiers shoot, arrest 2 farmers in San Narciso, Quezon – rights group
Ronilo Villanueva is a coconut farmer who was found by elements of the 85th Infantry Battalion while out processing copra. Tanggol Quezon said Villanueva was shot on the knee and stomach before he was arrested on unknown charges. Another farmer named Genero was also arrested, according to eyewitness accounts.
A mother’s cry for justice
“I will carry on Betchay’s legacy by continuing the fight she started,” Nanay Enda vowed, her voice shaking with both sorrow and resolve, recounting the events of the infamous Bloody Sunday Massacre.
Southern Tagalog rights group condemns crackdown amid typhoon relief
The group said that the government’s counter-insurgency operations are falsely portrayed as successes through the detention of activists and community leaders.
Post-‘Kristine’ efforts futile without urgent dike reconstruction— Oas Mayor
“We might need semi-dam dikes to hold the river’s water capacity, while the Bato Lake needs desiltation. But our urgent need is to block the side of the river with collapsed dike,” Mayor Domingo Escoto Jr. said.
In search of missing father, daughters get to know why he is loved by a small Bicol village
Human rights lawyer Antonio La Viña said that the missing activists were well-known in the neighborhood. “They knew it was him. The identification is positive that it was Felix.”
No urgency for Bicol police in investigating disappeared activists, kin says
Apart from the abduction of Salaveria, CCTV footage obtained by Karapatan also showed another Toyota van with plate number NDR5274 on August 23 at 10:00 p.m. entering Brgy. San Lorenzo, Tabaco City where Jazmines was abducted.