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December 21, 2020 Sergeant Jonel Nuezca shot his neighbour point blank over a dispute and now facing murder charges. Philippine National Police MANILA - Just days before Christmas, Filipinos woke up on Monday morning (Dec 21) to a harrowing five-minute video of an off-duty police officer shooting point blank at a neighbour and her son in broad daylight over some disputes in front of a small crowd. The incident was shocking and disturbing for its portrayal of brazen impunity, critics said. It ...

Duterte accuses Zarate of possibly using NPA funds to finance sons education in Europe enablePagination: false (PHOTO BY RICHARD MADELO) Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, December 22) — President Rodrigo Duterte once again took a swipe at Bayan Muna Rep. Carlos Zarate in his latest address to the nation, this time floating the possibility that the party-list lawmaker has been using "funds collected" by communist rebels to pay for his sons education in Europe. In his address to the nation on M...

(Photo from Karapatan) The HRD 7 were arrested on Human Rights Day last December 10 for illegal possession of firearms and explosives, which they claimed were merely planted by police. Rallyists from Kilusang Mayo Uno, Bayan Muna, Anakpawis, and Pamalakaya, among other groups, gathered at the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) in Quezon City to hold the “Global Day of Action” protest. Joining them were the families of detained labor organizers Dennise Velasco, Rodrigo Esparago, Romina Astudil...

Related Story "While there are unfortunate incidents like this, the vast majority of our PNP personnel perform their sworn duties everyday with honour and integrity to protect and serve the people… The sin of Nuezca is not the sin of the entire Philippine National Police," he said. Government critics disagreed, saying the killing reflected the "executioners mentality" among policemen because of a "culture of impunity" stoked by President Rodrigo Duterte himself. "This is what happens when the...

Published December 21, 2020, 3:17 PM Progressive and human rights groups on Monday called for an end to police brutality, killings, and impunity in light of the deaths of two civilians in Paniqui, Tarlac at the hands of a police officer during a heated argument. Bayan secretary general Renato Reyes Jr. said that police brutality and abuse must end and it must start with President Duterte telling the police to stop the spate of killings in the country. “Impunity. When the police think they ca...

Published December 19, 2020, 2:57 PM Progressive groups Anakpawis and the Pambansang Lakas ng Kilusang Mamamalakaya ng Pilipinas have  claimed that surveillance have been conducted in their shared headquarters in Quezon City. Anakpawis said suspicious individuals were seen on closed-circuit television cameras sneaking around the vicinity of its headquarters on Dec. 11 and 16. “Given the successive raids of houses and offices that led to arrests of activists, we can’t help but be alarmed on...

An Interview with Bill Fletcher by E. San Juan, Jr. Amid the horrendous pandemic ravaging of the globalized political-economy of Europe and North America, particularly the imperial U.S. heartland with close to half-a-million deaths, peripheral nations remain negligible. The neoliberal consensus has collapsed, inaugurating a new era of trade wars and ecological disasters. Such “shithole” countries like the Philippines, to use President Trump’s rubric, rarely enter public attention. For ov...

You Are Here:Home → 2020 → December → 18 → Media groups sue NTF-ELCAC officials over red-tagging Media groups sue NTF-ELCAC officials over red-tagging Alternative media practitioners and their lawyers from the National Union of Peoples’ Lawyers (NUPL) file charges against government officials over red-tagging, Dec. 18. “Complainants have been targeted for their critical and independent reporting on issues affecting the marginalized and oppressed sectors. They are bei...

By DONA MAGSINO, GMA News Published December 18, 2020 6:47pm Former Bayan Muna representative and activist Teddy Casiño called out former Senator Antonio Trillanes IV for allegedly red-tagging family members of drug war victims who filed a communication with the International Criminal Court (ICC). "It was the mothers and family members of the EJK victims of Dutertes drug war who filed with the ICC through the National Union of Peoples Lawyers (NUPL). Pls. dont red tag them," Casiño told...

Department of National Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana (MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO) Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana said that the DND gives its “full support” to Judge Cecilyn Burgos-Villavert, of the Quezon City Regional Trial Court, in the face of the Makabayan bloc’s allegations that she had issued “irregular” warrants against red-tagged activists and progressive groups. “We firmly believe that a judge of the Honorable Villavert’s caliber does not issue warrants without ...