The National Police disclosed it already transported Dr. Ma. Natividad Marian Castro to Bayugan City, Agusan del Sur, a day after police barged into her home in San Juan City “After proper documentation and booking procedure upon her arrest in San Juan City on Friday morning, she was immediately flown…
MANILA, PHILIPPINES - Philippine police have arrested a doctor in the capital, Manila, accusing her of being a leader of a Maoist rebel group that has w
Philippine police have arrested a Manila-based doctor, accusing her of being a leader of a Maoist rebel group that has waged a decades-long insurgency against the central government.
Maria Natividad Castro, 53, is being held without bail and would be tried on charges of kidnapping, for which a lower court had ordered her arrest in 2020, police said in a statement on Friday.
However, her former employer, human rights monitor Karapatan, said that Castro was facing “trumped up” charges after she investigated alleged human rights abuses in the volatile Mindanao region while also setting up community health centers there.
She was arrested at
Senator Kiko Pangilinan on Saturday, Feb. 19 condemned the arrest of a 53-year-old physician working as a health worker in Mindanao after she was accused of being a member of the Communist Party of the Philippines-New People’s Army (CPP-NPA).
Dr. Maria Natividad Castro (Photo courtesy of PNP-PIO)