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Search You Are Here:Home → 2021 → April → 7 → Human rights defender, daughter, arrested in Quezon on trumped-up charges Human rights defender, daughter, arrested in Quezon on trumped-up charges By JUSTIN UMALI CALAMBA CITY, Laguna – Human rights defender Genelyn Dichoso and her daughter Jennifer were arrested by suspected elements of the 201st Infantry Brigade, Philippine Army on charges of attempted homicide, in Calauag, Quezon province, April 5. Dichoso is the secretary general of human rights group Karapatan Quezon. The group stated that Dichoso has been the victim of black propaganda and red-tagging for years before the onset of the Duterte administration. “There is a clear and systemic pattern of vilifying human rights defenders as ‘terrorists’ or ‘subversives’ that has started even before the Duterte regime,” said Kyle Salgado, spokesperson for the group. “Tita Jen’s illegal abduction only prov ....
Search You Are Here:Home → 2021 → January → 9 → After over 3 weeks, remains of Baras massacre victim returned to grieving family After over 3 weeks, remains of Baras massacre victim returned to grieving family By JUSTIN UMALI SANTA ROSA, Laguna – Police have finally released the remains of farmworker Vilma Salabao to her family three weeks after she and four others were killed in a joint police and military operation in Brgy. San Juan, Baras, Rizal, Dec. 17. “Although Vilma Salabao’s remains have been released, this does not absolve the AFP [Armed Forces of the Philippines] and PNP’s [ Philippine National Police] barbarity,” a statement from human rights watchdog Karapatan – Southern Tagalog read, “Including the three-week hostaging of Salabao’s remains, the arbitrary and unnecessary prerequisites placed by the PNP and the AFP, and the gruesome murder of the five victims, this is the latest in their list o ....
Search You Are Here:Home → 2020 → December → 24 → 5 killed in Rizal ‘encounter’ were farm workers, not NPA fighters – rights group 5 killed in Rizal ‘encounter’ were farm workers, not NPA fighters – rights group By JUSTIN UMALI SANTA ROSA, Laguna – The five people killed by elements of the Armed Forces of the Philippines’ (AFP) 2nd Infantry Division on Dec. 17 in Baras, Rizal were not members of the revolutionary New People’s Army (NPA) but civilian farm workers, according to human rights watchdog Karapatan Southern Tagalog. The group said the military is still refusing to hand over the remains of the three of the five slain to their families. ....