“It was obvious that the activists were held up by the police to prevent them from joining the SONA ng Bayan.”
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11 arrested in Cabuyao 24 hours after anti-terror bill signed into law
“Exactly 24 hours since Rodrigo Duterte affixed his signature on the draconian Terror Law, the first arrests were made on activists who held a peaceful protest against the dangerous law.”
Cops break into UP Cebu grounds, arrest 7 protesters
Hundreds of students and activists held a protest inside UP-Cebu grounds to call for the junking of Anti-Terror Bill but policemen forcibly entered the campus and arrested seven protesters.
Labor groups demand release of 6 arrested jeepney drivers
They had no income for two months and received no aid from government. When they held a protest demanding government to allow them to earn a living, they were arrested and detained.
‘In fascist fashion’ | 7 activists arrested before and during Trump visit
Among those arrested is a nursing mother who was tending to her two-month-old baby in a hospital when arrested in Oriental Mindoro.
Arrests, surveillance of activists precede Aquino’s SONA
Five peasant activists were arrested, a priest and a bishop of the Iglesia Filipina Independiente were put under surveillance.
Crackdown on political activists feared as 28 nabbed in 1 month

By RONALYN V. OLEA
Those arrested were charged with cases in relation to New People’s Army ambuscades, which occurred in areas where they have never even set foot on. Is this part of another crackdown on political activists, this time by the Aquino administration?