15. August 2022 | Human Rights Defenders, Human Rights News, Internal Affairs
After conducting “bungkalan”, meaning “land cultivation to assert ownership”, the police arrested at least 87 persons without a warrant of arrest in the town of Concepcion in Tarlac province on June 9, 2022. Among the arrested people were several small-scale farmers,...
5. May 2022 | Human Rights Defenders, Human Rights News
Alleged drug lord Kerwin Espinosa withdrew his accusations against Senator Leila de Lima in a sworn affidavit. De Lima has already been imprisoned for more than five years on allegedly trumped-up and politically motivated charges. ‘Any statement he made against the...
5. May 2022 | Human Rights Defenders, Human Rights News
According to the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), peace consultant Ezequiel Daguman of the National Democratic Front (NDFP) was supposedly killed in an armed clash between the New People’s Army (NPA) and the AFP in Davao de Oro on March 27, 2022. The NDFP,...
5. May 2022 | Human Rights Defenders, Human Rights News, Internal Affairs
A regional court in Bacolod City convicted two Philippine Army intelligence officers for the murder of activist Benjamin Bayles on March 31, 2022. In broad daylight, the two men shot Bayles – coordinator of the party-list Bayan Muna and member of the Iglesia Filipina...
3. May 2022 | Human Rights Defenders, Human Rights News, News
The Aktionsbündnis Menschenrechte – Philippinen (AMP, German Action Network Human Rights) expresses in a statement its deep concerns about the arrest of Aldeem Yañez, a dedicated volunteer at the Iglesia Filipina Independiente (IFI). On April 10, 2022, Yañez was...
14. April 2022 | Human Rights Defenders, Human Rights News
On March 25, 2022, the Bayugan City Regional Court dismissed the kidnapping and serious illegal detention case against community doctor and Lumad supporter Dr. Navidad Castro. The court based its decision on grounds of the denial of her substantive right to due...
