(Photo from Amihan Women)
Tasic, 55, a councilor of Barangay Hanopol Norte, was killed by two unidentified gunmen on Tuesday morning, Feb. 16.
Amihan Women mourned the death of Tasic and called for the termination of Anti-Terror Law and other state policies “authorizing extra-judicial killings, illegal arrests, and detention, and red-tagging, and other forms of human rights violations.”
“Moreover, before her death, she was constantly harassed and red-tagged by Duterte’s state forces and forced to clear her name and quit the organization,” Zenaida Soriano, National Chairperson of Amihan, said.
The peasant leader also urged the public to condemn the killing of Lucresia and other EJK victims and to hold Duterte and his state forces accountable.
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Arrested Lumad students, teachers denied access to lawyers
Screengrab from The Freeman video of Feb. 16 raid in the retreat house at the University of San Carlos-Talamban campus Cebu City.
“It contradicts the proper protocols of handling children. Supposedly they should have been brought to a social welfare facility and not in an undisclosed place.”
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL
MANILA – The Lumad students who were taken by the police yesterday from the retreat house in University of San Carlos-Talamban campus in Cebu City have yet to be located, a lawyer said on Tuesday, Feb. 16, in an online program of the AlterMidya Network.
By REIN TARINAY
MANILA In line with the National Arts Month this February, progressive groups held a protest on wheels to call for the release of detained artists.
Ara Villena, spokesperson of Free the Artists, said that detained artists Amanda Echanis, Cheryl Catalogo and Alvin Fortaliza have done nothing wrong and merely used their art to present the story of the masses.
According to Sama-samang Artista para sa Kilusang Agraryo (SAKA) Echanis, Catalogo, and Fortaliza remain in jail with writer Echanis having to nurse her three-month-old baby in prison, and theater worker Catalogo unable to attend the funeral of her father who was slain last year, himself a farmer and an activist.
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Rights defenders urge SC to reprimand Calida for ‘unethical actions’
A nun joins a protest action against the Anti-Terror Law last Feb. 2, 2021. (photo by Carlo Manalansan/Bulatlat)“The Solicitor General’s allegation is nothing but a desperate attempt to discredit groups that stand firm in opposing the Anti-Terrorism Act, a law that is broadly criticized for the threats it poses against dissenters.”
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL
MANILA – Human rights defenders called on the Supreme Court to reprimand Solicitor General Jose Calida for his “actions that are unethical and reflective of both moral vacuum and the vicious character of the law that he defends.”
Published February 9, 2021 2:33pm The Supreme Court (SC) on Tuesday resumed the oral arguments on the petitions seeking to nullify the controversial anti-terror law. The justices are expected to continue the interpellation on the issues raised by the petitioners against the law. At the start of the oral arguments on February 2, only three justices were able ask questions to the lawyers of the petitioners about the definition of terrorism and on punishing intent, freezing of accounts and surveillance, as well as the high court’s mandate to settle actual controversies. After the petitioners, Solicitor General Jose Calida will present the side of the government and answer the queries of the justices.