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Search You Are Here:Home → 2021 → May → 22 → Truth-tagging? | Courts junk cases vs red-tagged activists, peace consultants Truth-tagging? | Courts junk cases vs red-tagged activists, peace consultants Ironically, cases against red-tagged individuals are being dismissed by government courts for lack of probable cause or because of insufficient evidence. Motions to quash search warrants were also granted by the courts, declaring whatever so-called evidence the police have acquired during the search as inadmissible. By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL MANILA – During the oral argume...

Search You Are Here:Home → 2021 → May → 14 → Prosecution junks charges against 7 Lumad teachers, students Prosecution junks charges against 7 Lumad teachers, students Lumad students join protest at the Commission on Human Rights in Quezon City on Feb. 15, 2021 (Photo by Carlo Manalansan/Bulatlat)“The victory of the Bakwit School 7 is a testament to the truth and the legitimacy of the calls of the Lumad and the existence of the Bakwit School. This victory only proves that the NTF-ELCAC only peddles lies and that their stories bear no truth nor any weight when it comes...

Published May 14, 2021, 1:26 PM Davao del Norte Seven persons have been cleared of criminal charges in the alleged kidnapping of 19 Lumad children “to be trained as communist rebel fighters” but were rescued by the Philippine National Police (PNP) at the University of San Carlos Retreat House (USCRH) in Cebu City last Feb. 15. In a 13-page resolution dated May 5, the Davao del Norte Office of the Provincial Prosecutor dismissed the charges filed by the PNP “for insufficiency of evidence, lack of probable cause, and being outside the territorial jurisdiction of this Office.” “All tol...

Published February 24, 2021, 10:53 AM The Philippine National Police (PNP) has accused the New People’s Army (NPA) of abducting four parents of some of the Lumad minors whom authorities claimed to have rescued from the retreat house of the University of San Carlos in Cebu City. (Photo by: Juan Carlo de Vela / FILE PHOTO) PNP chief Gen. Debold Sinas said the four parents were among the Ata Manobo parents who were supposed to be met by local policemen in Talaingod town of Davao del Norte for their trip to Cebu City to meet their children. Only two parents, however, showed up and quoting a r...

Police 'rescue' 19 minor lumads