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A petition seeking to cancel or deny due course to the certificate of candidacy of presidential aspirant Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. has been filed before the Commission on Elections (Comelec) on Tuesday, Nov. 2. Bongbong Marcos (Screenshot/Comelec) Petitioners Fr Christian Buenafe of Task F

“It should bother everyone but it doesn’t bother the court why a bedridden old man, completely disabled and incapable of any self-care, cannot benefit from the equity of the law that was used in principle to grant bail for jailed and convicted politicians accused of non bailable high crimes."

The Philippines has lost a beloved human rights defender. Jose Luis Martin Gascon, known to all as “Chito,” who had chaired the governmental Commission on Human Rights since 2015, died October 9 from complications due to Covid-19, his family said. He was 57. Friends and allies in the human rights movement mourned…

“Clearly, the funds are not from money laundering or terrorism financing but resulted from Republic Act No. 10368, otherwise known as the Human Rights Victims Reparation and Recognition Act of 2013,” Fides Lim said.

endIndex: Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, May 11) — Peasant leader Joseph Canlas died on Tuesday morning due to COVID-19 complications, his colleagues reported. Canlas was among activist leaders arrested in March for supposed links to communist groups. Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas and Anakpawis Party-list blamed the administration for his "untimely death" brought by his "unjust and prolonged detention" based on what they call fabricated charges. "We point our fingers to the [National Task...

2 political prisoners die in overcrowded Philippine prisons in 3 days 2 minutes read Bangkok, May 11 (EFE).- In the most saturated prison system in the world, shuttered by the Covid-19 pandemic, two political prisoners have died in the Philippines in the last three days, raising the claims for humanitarian releases by relatives of prisoners of conscience. Peasant leader Joseph Canlas, 59, died Tuesday morning of Covid-19 at the Lingad Memorial regional hospital in San Fernando de Pampanga, in...

Kapatid calls for release of sick, elderly detainees as farmers leader taken to ICU By CONSUELO MARQUEZ, GMA News Published May 9, 2021 4:37pm Political prisoners support group Kapatid on Sunday called for the release of prisoners who are senior citizens and sickly after detained Central Luzon peasant leader Joseph Canlas was rushed to a Pampanga hospital intensive care unit. Canlas, vice-chairperson of peasant group Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP), was being treated at the Jose ...

Search You Are Here:Home → 2021 → April → 22 → ‘Include elderly and sick inmates in vaccine priority list’ ‘Include elderly and sick inmates in vaccine priority list’ By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL MANILA – Elderly and sick persons who have been deprived of liberty (PDL) should be included in the government’s priority vaccination list. This was the contention of a human rights group adding that these groups are also most at risk of contracting the novel coronavirus. ...

Group urges Bucor to reconsider ban on paabot to Bilibid prisoners Apr 1, 2021 3:45 PM PHT Dwight De Leon A prisoners’ rights group slammed the Bureau of Corrections’ (Bucor) decision to maintain restrictions on "paabot" or delivery of food and other essential goods to detainees at the New Bilibid Prison. Kapatid spokesperson Fides Lim first sent a letter to Bucor spokesperson Gerald Bantag on Tuesday, March 30, asking the agency to reconsider the temporary suspension of "paabot" in Bilibid...

Search You Are Here:Home → 2021 → March → 9 → Nimfa Lanzanas, a woman with a big heart Nimfa Lanzanas, a woman with a big heart Who is Nimfa Lanzanas and why is she behind bars? By REIN TARINAY MANILA — Nimfa Lanzanas is one of the three arrested in simultaneous police raids on March 7, which also left nine farmers and human rights workers killed. The incidents dubbed as Bloody Sunday happened just two days after President Rodrigo Duterte issued yet another ‘kill’ ...