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A SUPPORT group of families and friends of political prisoners yesterday urged the Judicial and Bar Council (JBC) to reject the bid for a seat in either th...

RESBAK, an alliance of progressive artists and media practitioners demand justice for victims and an end to state-sponsored killings in their fifth solidarity event through cultural performances and artistic presentations.

The Trinidad and Tobago Guardian is the longest running daily newspaper in the country, marking its centenary in 2017. The paper started life as the Trinidad Guardian on Sunday 2nd September 1917 by the newly formed Trinidad Publishing Company Limited.

The Commission on Human Rights reminded jail authorities on Thursday to comply with international rules after a family member of a political prisoner was subjected to a strip search without consent.

“It is important to underscore how the decision concluded that the CPP and NPA are not terrorists, rather, are waging armed resistance with clear political aims and directs its attacks, not against civilians, but against agents of the reactionary state represented by the government of the Republic of the Philippines."

The CA said the firearms and live ammunition allegedly recovered therefrom constitutes inadmissible evidence in accordance to the exclusionary clause stated in the 1987 Constitution “for being the proverbial fruit of the poisonous tree.”

“Nothing now stands in the way of freedom for Reina Mae Nasino, Alma Moran and Ram Carlo Bautista after nearly three years in jail for an offense they did not commit because it was a pure police invention.”

The Court of Appeals has voided the search warrants that led to the arrest of three activists in February 2020, including Reina Mae Nasino, who gave birth in custody and lost her first born Baby River without ever reuniting with her.

Kapatid A support group for political prisoners and their families on Monday, Sept. 5, lauded the decision of the Court of Appeals (CA) in nullifying two search warrants that led to the arrest, detention, and filing of criminal charges against three human rights activists in 2019. In a sta

"Iloilo is not a safe place for Mama and it's very far away from us. She has been through so much suffering. We appeal to government authorities to give her a chance to live a peaceful life...Please release her on humanitarian grounds and allow us to take care of her."