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Philippines: Deadly crackdown on human rights defenders


Philippines: Deadly crackdown on human rights defenders
09/03/2021
Extrajudicial killing /
March 9, 2021
The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a partnership of the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) and FIDH, requests your urgent intervention in the following situation in The Philippines.
Description of the situation:
The Observatory has been informed by Karapatan Alliance Philippines about the extrajudicial killing of nine human rights defenders and the arbitrary detention of four others in four provinces in Calabarzon region.
On March 7, 2021, the Philippines National Police (PNP) and the Philippine Army (PA) carried out raids into the houses and offices of several human rights defenders in Calabarzon region, southern Philippines as part of a joint operation against alleged members of “communist and terrorist groups”. ....

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UN expresses alarm over CALABARZON activists' deaths


UN expresses alarm over CALABARZON activists deaths
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Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, March 10)  The United Nations expressed alarm over the killing of nine activists and the arrest of six others in CALABARZON region over the weekend.
We are appalled by the apparently arbitrary killing of nine activists in simultaneous police-military operations in Batangas, Cavite, Laguna and Rizal provinces surrounding Metro Manila, said UN High Commissioner for Human Rights spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani in a press briefing on Tuesday.
Shamdasani added the violent crackdown could further promote intimidation and red-tagging against activists, citing the Philippine government s record of accusing them of being members of the Communist Party of the Philippines. ....

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