A court in the Philippines cleared a Catholic missionary nun and several human rights activists of perjury charges that were filed by the country’s former
The Quezon City Metropolitan Trial Court has acquitted 10 human rights defenders belonging to Karapatan, Gabriela and Rural Missionaries of the Philip-pines of perjury in connection with a case filed by former national security adviser Hermogenes Esperon in 2019.
"Truth and justice prevailed today against liars and butcher such as former National Security Adviser Hermogenes Esperon and National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict."
"This award also comes at a crucial time, against the backdrop of a rapidly deteriorating human rights crisis and alarming democratic backsliding in the Philippines, and this award is a recognition of the tremendous challenges we currently face amid worsening attacks on human rights defenders, police brutality, militarization, and the narrowing of civic and democratic spaces in the country."