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Courts should stand for truth – rights group
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL
MANILA – Reconsider the denial of the motion to quash the search warrant against trade unionist Joel Demate.
This is the demand of human rights group Karapatan after a local court denied the appeal filed by Demate on February 22.
In a statement, Karapatan said that a thorough review of the application of search warrants used by the police to conduct simultaneous raids on December 10 last year “is a matter of justice.”
They believe that this was not done in the case of Demate.
ILOILO CITY – Activists in Iloilo are once again condemning the alleged red-tagging or alleged linkages to the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) and its armed wing of the New People’s Army (NPA).
The NUPL data showed high instances of red-tagging or vilification and killing of lawyers in both administrations of then President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo and President Duterte. The present administration has the most number of killings with 54. (Graphics by Dawn Cecilia Peña)
This translates to an average of seven lawyers killed every year.
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL
MANILA – Seventy three judges and lawyers have been killed in the last 10 years, according to the National Union of People’s Lawyers.
In a forum entitled Lawyers in the Line of Fire: Tales from Survivors, NUPL’s Melanie Pinlac revealed that from 2011 to April 22, 2021 at least 11 judges, nine prosecutors, six lawyers in government service, and 47 lawyers in private practice (five were public interest and human rights lawyers) were killed.
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Amid threats to life, lawyers continue to fight for justice
Lawyers Czarina Musni, Jobert Pahilga, Catherine Salucon and Angelo Karlo Guillen.
“State forces will always be there to call us into submission, to prevent us from performing our sworn duties as lawyers. But I come to realize that there is no other way to stop the rights violations but to fight. Fight the system that breeds them.”
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL
MANILA – Lawyer Angelo Karlo Guillen had to pretend he was dead after unknown assailants repeatedly stabbed him on the night of March 3 along Gen. Luna Street, Iloilo City.
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