Opposition solons seek probe into alleged police profiling of lawyers By ANNA FELICIA BAJO, GMA News
Published March 16, 2021 6:26pm Some lawmakers on Tuesday sought a probe into the alleged profiling being done against legal counsels representing left-leaning personalities. Members of the Makabayan Bloc as well as Representatives Edcel Lagman and Jose Christopher Kit Belmonte filed House Resolution 1657 urging the House Committee on Human Rights to condemn and investigate, in aid of legislation, the police s alleged profiling of lawyers of suspected communists and other left-leaning individuals. The legal community is threatened considering the current dismal human rights situation in the country and the recent attacks in lawyers. These brutal attacks and killings of lawyers, prosecutors and judges, are attacks also to all human rights defenders and to the legal profession, which demand a thorough and impartial investigation that should be conducted posthaste, the
The move comes after an intelligence unit chief from Calbayog, Samar requested from the regional court a list of names who were representing communist terrorist groups.
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Relief volunteers, advocates say junking of charges ‘a vindication’
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL
MANILA – On March 17 last year President Duterte imposed strict quarantine measures supposedly to suppress the rise of Covid-19 cases in the country.
Curfews were set and checkpoints were put in place to regulate people’s mobility. Uniformed men, some with firearms, were visible on the streets, enforcing quarantine measures.
Rights groups observed that the imposition of these measures are oppressive, especially among the most vulnerable sectors. And those who sought redress for the government’s lack of relief measures were arrested. Even relief workers from people’s organizations and non-government organizations were arrested for providing much needed food and supplies to poor communities.
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