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Human RightsYouth Under Siege Youth Under Siege Youth organizations have been targets of the government’s counter-insurgency campaign. Besides killings and enforced disappearances, other forms of political repression are hurled against young activists. BY JEFFREY OCAMPO ( categories: )
OSG Admits Lapses in Due Process in Arrest of UCCP PastorOSG Admits Lapses in Due Process in Arrest of UCCP Pastor During a Court of Appeals hearing of the petition for certiorari, prohibition, and mandamus filed by the lawyers of Rev. Berlin Guerrero, representatives from the Office of the Solicitor General admitted that the government committed lapses in due process in the arrest of the pastor from the United Church of Christ of the Philippines. This alone, according to former Sen. ( categories: )
Abra Human Rights Worker Receives Death ThreatsAbra Human Rights Worker Receives Death Threats A human rights worker in Abra continues to receive death threats through text messages from an unidentified sender allegedly from the military. BY CYE REYES AND JUDE BAGGO ( categories: )
Torture Survivor Files Charges vs PerpetratorsTorture Survivor Files Charges vs Perpetrators A survivor of torture and abduction filed administrative, criminal and civil charges against his captors, including retired Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) officers Gen. Hermogenes Esperon, Maj. Gen. Jovito Palparan Jr. and Maj Gen. Juanito Gomez. BY RONALYN V. OLEA ( categories: )
Terrorizing Communities: The Oplan Bantay Laya II in Guihulngan, Negros OrientalAs the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) noted a decline in the incidence of extrajudicial killings in the country, another face of the government’s counter-insurgency program Oplan Bantay Laya II emerges. In Guihulngan, Negros Oriental, terror has gripped the hearts and minds of the people. BY RONALYN V. OLEA ( categories: )
Abducted Peasant Leaders Detail Torture by PoliceWhen Axel Pinpin and the rest of the “Tagaytay 5” were under tactical interrogation two years ago, they were being asked about Renato Alvarez, chairman of Kamagsasaka-Ka to which two of them belong. Three days after the release of the “Tagaytay 5”, Alvarez along with seven peasant organizers and the driver of the van they rented were abducted and heavily tortured. ( categories: )
Students Hit ‘Creeping State Fascism in Schools’Four elements of the Philippine Army were recently caught in the act of spying on students of the Polytechnic University of the Philippines. Student leaders criticized surveillance and other tactics employed by state agents to disrupt the student movement. BY BULATLAT ( categories: )
Karapatan at 13: Defending Human Rights, Advancing People’s RightsWhy do they risk death to defend human rights? For Karapatan workers, it’s the way to live. BY RONALYN V. OLEA ( categories: )
Tagaytay 5: We’ll Continue the FightAfter 859 days (two years and four months) of agony, the Tagaytay 5 (T5) are now free and vow to continue their crusade against injustices and to free other prisoners from the much-bigger “cage” of an unjust society. BY NOEL SALES BARCELONA ( categories: )
Lamentations of Families of the DisappearedHow does one cope when a loved one was involuntarily disappeared? How does one go on searching for days, weeks, months, years, decades? BY BULATLAT ( categories: )
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