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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 Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict] that subjected Canlas to constant red-tagging, Angeles...