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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Pagkakaisa ng Manggagawa sa Timog Katagalugan (Pamantik-KMU) Incident date Labour rights group
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Philipino labor federation Pagkakaisa ng Manggagawa sa Timog Katagalugan (Pamantik-KMU) were victim of red-tagging by the military and police in Calamba, the Philippines. Pamantik-KMU denounced assertions by the police and military that they were front organizations of the outlawed CPP-NPA Communist rebellion. In addition, according to Pamantik-KMU, two local Coca-Cola worker representatives have been responsible for the spate of harassments against Coca-Cola workers, including house-to-house visits by police officers to force them to âsurrenderâ during a surrender ceremony staged by the military, where they claimed that most of the participants were alleged former members of the revolutionary New Peopleâs Army in Camp Vicente Lim, Calamba, Laguna. The 16 âsurrendereesâ were reportedly Coca-Cola employees who were forcibly brought