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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 the center of the island of Luzon, after being transferred urgently due to respiratory ailments. Pr...

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 B. Lingad Memorial Regional Hospital on Saturday night after he experienced difficulty breathing at...

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. “We ask that they be placed in the A-2 and A-3 priority classifications, in the same way that seni...

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 because of the Enhanced Community Quarantine, the government's strictest form of lockdown, in Met...

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’ order against communists in the Philippines. Read:  Nanay Nimfa in the human rights community in th...