Peace negotiations shall resume in the higher interest of peace and national security.” – Supreme Court
Bail pleas filed for release of NDFP consultants
Tags: political prisoners
Postponement of GRP-NDFP peace talks likely sans release of NDFP consultants
“The NDFP is willing to give time for the GRP to effect the release of detained NDFP consultants.” — Luis Jalandoni
Incoming House Speaker supports resumption of peace talks, release of political prisoners
“…[t]his is definitely a boost in fast tracking the release of all political prisoners and augurs well for the scheduled resumption of the formal peace negotiations between the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) and the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP).”
On the Fringes | You failed to kill them
Political detainees are behind bars because they dared to go against the status quo.
Groups, kin call on incoming Duterte gov’t: ‘Free all political prisoners’
“They are common people like us, but are organizing others.”
Women’s rights defender, union activist freed
“While we celebrate her release, we continue to mount appeals for the immediate release of all political prisoners, especially the sick, women and the elderly.”
Hopes high at political detainees’ art exhibit in UP Diliman
Incoming President Rodrigo Duterte’s statement about freeing political detainees spurs optimism inside detention cells, and at an art show.
Court denies political prisoner Miradel Torres bail plea
“The judge threw away Torres’ testimony that she was home in Biñan, Laguna when the supposed ambush happened, and that she was not a member of the NPA but of the women’s mass organization Gabriela,”
‘Don’t rob them of their youth’
“What greater injustice could there be than to be robbed of one’s youth? To be jailed for one’s beliefs?”
Back Stories | ‘Ka Eddik’
To honor the man and his principles and to rage against the injustices that he has been a victim of, Bulatlat.com is printing the articles we published about Eduardo Serrano.
Special Coverage: No good governance without human rights
Human rights is nowhere to be found from among the Aquino administration’s priorities. And this has perpetuated, nay worsened, impunity as the Aquino administration has itself committed human rights violations in the course of its own counter-insurgency program Oplan Bayanihan and in pushing the neoliberal agenda in the service of corporate interests.