In a statement, Karapatan Secretary General Cristina Palabay said that there have been many occasions that the courts dismissed writ of amparo petitions despite clear threats on their life, security and liberty.
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Cordillera activists turn to SC for protection
“We ask the Supreme Court not to wait for red-tagging and death threats to materialize into extrajudicial killings, or detention, trumped-up charges and even abductions to become enforced disappearances.”
High courts grants plea of missing labor organizers’ kin
The SC also granted a temporary protection order and “prohibited the respondents from going within a radius of one kilometer of the petitioners and their immediate family.”
In search of missing activists, groups seek high court’s help
“We will continue fighting until the armed forces of Marcos Jr. surface our fellow human rights defenders. We will seek all legal actions and remedies to secure Loi and Ador’s rights and freedom, and to hold their criminal violators accountable.”
Rights group calls on high court to protect rights defenders
In its second manifestation, the group stressed that the SC should revisit the CA ruling as their leaders and members continue to experience judicial harassment, threats, and red-tagging by military and police authorities, including those perpetrated by the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) spokesperson and Southern Luzon Command chief Antonio Parlade Jr.
Youth groups, lawyer decry ‘harassment case’
The National Union of Peoples Lawyers (NUPL), counsel for Anakbayan, lambasted the NTF-ELCAC “for capitalizing on a familial conflict and turning it into a witch-hunt for members of Anakbayan and the Kabataan Partylist, which are legitimate organizations advancing the Filipino youth’s aspirations for national democracy.”
How the legal system is used to attack political dissenters
“The police and military have mastered the art of preparing false documents to justify the filing of fabricated charges.”
Human rights lawyers to SC: ‘How many more lives, your Honor?’
At least 40 lawyers have been killed under President Duterte alone according to the NUPL.
Rights groups ask SC to overturn CA’s denial of plea for protection
“We maintain that our petition is urgent amid the spate of intensified red-tagging, illegal arrests, and killings perpetrated against us by this government.”
Court junks rights lawyers’ plea for protection
“How many more lawyers and human rights defenders need to be killed, vilified, harassed, threatened and labelled before the dots are connected?”
Parlade, other respondents no show at CA hearing on lawyers’ plea for protection
“From Day 1, the respondents only issued general denials, resorting to technicalities instead of answering our petition.”