At least 40 lawyers have been killed under President Duterte alone according to the NUPL.
Human rights lawyers to SC: ‘How many more lives, your Honor?’
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Respondents to writ of amparo petition a no show in hearings
“The audacity in yakking against us to our extreme prejudice outside the courtroom could not be matched by any modicum of fortitude by at least showing up in court.”
Rights group lauds Iceland’s resolution on PH rights situation
“It is a big step in stride with other parallel measures and contemporaneous efforts that merits the full support of an intergovernmental body that is mandated to ensure the promotion, protection and respect for human rights at the global level.”
Now red-tagged groups fight back via the courts
In early March, they instantly came out with vigorous denials, condemning the ramped-up red-tagging campaign waged against them, here and in Europe, by the Duterte government. To a considerable degree, the broad-ranged ripostes have blunted the vilification drive against Karapatan and other human rights defenders, militant people’s organizations and alliances, and Left-leaning candidates in the…
Agcaoili slams false allegations against him, lawyers group
“This series of attacks, bigoted and fantastic as they are, is not only disturbing but can be ominous of even worse things to come.”
Kin of ’Tokhang’ victims file raps vs. Duterte before ICC
“I don’t want others to suffer the same fate as that of my son.”
Lawyers hold rally vs Sereno ouster
“Our reason for being is put to question. We are being forced to relearn or unlearn what we studied or taught in law school. The Decision revolts against norms we hold dear.”
Chief Justice Sereno’s ‘forced leave’ exposes widening cracks in Judiciary – lawyers group
The NUPL stressed that in the end, the losing party in this fiasco is not the Chief Justice nor any Justice of the Court, nor the Court or the entire judicial system.
Crackdown intensifies | Trumped-up charges filed vs. progressive leaders
“The charges are pathetically not worth the paper they were written on.”
Crackdown on ‘legal fronts’ a threat to basic human rights – lawyers’ group
“Such reckless threats are legally questionable and worse, will erupt in even more vicious and wholesale violations and would also constrict whatever democratic breathing space there is left.”
‘Let her speak’ | Appellate court asked to reconsider decision barring Mary Jane’s testimony
The Honorable Court, the motion for reconsideration stipulated, “grossly ignored the extraordinary circumstance attendant in this case that puts Mary Jane Veloso under the exception instead of the general rule” in the strict application of criminal procedures in the Philippines.