15. July 2025 | Aktuelles, Human Rights Defenders, Human Rights News, News
Trans rights and human rights advocate Ali Jejhon Macalintal, 39, was shot dead on June 23, 2025, in her acupuncture clinic in General Santos City. A former journalist, Macalintal also served as deputy secretary general of the human rights group Karapatan for the...
15. July 2025 | Aktuelles, Disinformation, Human Rights Defenders, Human Rights News, Internal Affairs
Carmilo Tabada, a barangay councilor and human rights activist from Trinidad, Bohol has come forward to strongly deny allegations linking him to the communist rebel group New People’s Army (NPA), following a news article published on May 25, 2025. The newspaper...
15. July 2025 | Aktuelles, Human Rights Defenders, Human Rights News, Internal Affairs
Former senator and incoming Mamamayang Liberal (ML) Representative Leila de Lima has been acquitted again on June 27, 2025, by the Muntinlupa City Regional Trial Court (RTC) of drug charges due to reasonable doubt. The case, filed during former President Rodrigo...
20. June 2025 | Aktuelles, Human Rights Defenders, Human Rights News, News
The terrorism financing case against the Philippine non-governmental organization (NGO) Community Empowerment Resource Network (CERNET) and 27 individuals who were affiliated with CERNET (referred to as “Cernet 27”) has encountered another legal setback as the...
20. June 2025 | Aktuelles, Human Rights Defenders, Human Rights News
The second trumped-up charge of illegal possession of firearms against United Church of Christ in the Philippines (UCCP) Pastor Nathaniel “Dodo” Vallente were dismissed by the Regional Trial Court in Bohol on June 5, 2025, as the prosecution failed to establish facts...
23. May 2025 | Aktuelles, Human Rights Defenders, Human Rights News, Internal Affairs, News
The Iloilo Regional Trial Court denied on April 22, 2025, a motion for reconsideration in a terrorism financing case against Paghidaet sa Kauswagan Development Group’s (PDG) staff and individuals affiliated with PDG, reaffirming a previous dismissal from March...
