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Tags: political prisoners
Rights worker calls for release of detained youth activist
Rowena Dasig began her work in human rights and environmental advocacy, serving as a paralegal for Daisy Macapanpan, an environmental defender arrested on fabricated charges.
Tatay Gerry is free!
By DEE AYROSO
‘Dehumanizing and traumatic’ | Kin of political prisoners assail strip search
Gloria Almonte, 63, wife of political prisoner Dionisio Almonte, is one of those who experienced the “degrading and traumatic” strip search at the New Bilibid Prison (NPB) when she opted to visit her husband on April 21, around 1:45 pm.
12 years in prison, political prisoner wants freedom on his 85th birthday
“There are no further obstacles that should hinder Tatay Gerry’s release as the Board of Pardons and Parole issued a recommendation for the commutation of his sentence to a definite prison term of 12 years.”
Tatay Gerry
Free Gerardo dela Peña!
Reflections after a prison visit
Given the constraints they face, political prisoners deserve our utmost respect for choosing defiance instead of compromise and collaboration with the class enemy. They provide a dignified example of how to live a life devoted to the cause of fighting with the oppressed. Their activism is demonized and criminalized by those who see no evil in the obscene hoarding of the nation’s wealth by the elite and the exploitation of the poor and powerless by those in power.
First Person | One year in detention
Jail, after all, is not exempt from society’s great divide based on economic and social status. And even here, the movement for freedom and democracy considers our situation as part of the struggle.
Kin of political prisoners ask high court to ‘promulgate writ of kalayaan’
“It is a travesty of justice that pork barrel mastermind Janet Napoles has been acquitted along with her cohorts who are now sitting senators, but no political prisoner whose cases are made up has been included in any of the trumpeted mass releases of elderly PDLs since the start of the pandemic in 2020.”
Rights group calls on courts to release sick and elderly political prisoners
According to Karapatan, these political prisoners were wrongfully arrested and rights have been violated in the course of their arrest.
3 political prisoners want to be home for Christmas
Kapatid compared the bail amount to the P300,000 ($5,371.50) bail posted by former first lady Imelda Marcos after she was convicted by the Sandiganbayan for using her government position to maintain Swiss bank accounts while her husband was in office.