Credit to Author: clopez| Date: Sat, 03 Aug 2019 12:31:41 +0000
The attack on noncombatant figures of the Left continued on Friday (Aug. 1) with the killing by masked gunmen of one member of a militant farmers’ group
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Read moreCredit to Author: acerojano| Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2019 13:44:32 +0000
MANILA, Philippines—A day after the 10th death anniversary of former President Corazon Aquino, President Rodrigo Duterte said she was only famous for losing her husband, former senator Benigno Simeon “Ninoy” Aquino, Jr. “Cory Aquino maybe popular, she is popular today. Why? For losing the husband in the hands of Mr. Marcos,” Duterte said before agrarian […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: acerojano| Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2019 13:28:51 +0000
MANILA, Philippines—President Rodrigo Duterte on Friday slammed human rights group Karapatan, calling it a “front” of communists rebels and an “organization of demons in the Philippines.” Speaking before agrarian reform beneficiaries in his hometown Davao City, Duterte also claimed that the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP), through its armed wing the New People’s Army […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: clopez| Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2019 21:22:29 +0000
Human rights and religious groups slammed National Security Adviser Hermogenes Esperon Jr. for “ceaselessly Red-tagging organizations
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Credit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2019 12:47:07 +0000
Karapatan hits the PNP for saying it would “most probably” conduct random inspections of protesters’ belongings on day of Duterte’s SONA.
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Read moreCredit to Author: cmiranda| Date: Sun, 07 Jul 2019 11:27:43 +0000
ILOILO CITY–Men riding in tandem on a motorcyle shot dead a 42-year-old worker of the Philippine Independent Church near one of its churches in the town kf Majuyod, Negros Oriental province on Sunday (July 7).
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Credit to Author: clopez| Date: Fri, 05 Jul 2019 10:47:54 +0000
A Philippine human rights group appealed to the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) to heed Iceland’s call to investigate unwarranted killings
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Read moreCredit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2019 23:02:12 +0000
MANILA, Philippines – National Security Adviser Hermogenes Esperon Jr. has lodged a perjury complaint against the cause-oriented groups tagged by the government as associated with the Communist Party of the Philippines.
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Read moreCredit to Author: jvicente| Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2019 07:06:47 +0000
A human-rights group slammed the CA decision dismissing the amparo and habeas data petition for the protection of its members.
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Read moreCredit to Author: acerojano| Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2019 10:59:00 +0000
The 22-year old human rights volunteer gunned down during the weekend was supposed to stand witness to the alleged harassment being perpetrated by the government against members of cause-oriented groups.
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