“This string of dismissals shows Judge Villavert’s notorious and baseless issuances of search warrants. She has clearly turned her court into a factory of bogus search warrants which has led to the illegal arrest of at least 76 activists, human rights defenders, peace advocates, peasant leaders, and journalists."
The National Union of Peoples’ Lawyers (NUPL) said that the court's findings "only prove how State forces are hell-bent at quelling the exercise of labor rights being promoted by trade union organizers such as Dennise Velasco as well as activists in general.”
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Courts should stand for truth – rights group
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL
MANILA – Reconsider the denial of the motion to quash the search warrant against trade unionist Joel Demate.
This is the demand of human rights group Karapatan after a local court denied the appeal filed by Demate on February 22.
In a statement, Karapatan said that a thorough review of the application of search warrants used by the police to conduct simultaneous raids on December 10 last year “is a matter of justice.”
They believe that this was not done in the case of Demate.
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