There have been 36 law practitioners killed in less than five years under President Aquino.
Attacks on lawyers: A threat to democracy
Tags: attacks against human rights defenders
Rights worker in Visayas harassed by suspected military agents
By RITCHE T. SALGADO
President Benigno Aquino III’s excuse that cases of human rights violations being brought before it are mere “leftist propaganda’ is not only lame, it is dangerous as threats against human rights defenders intensify.