Escalante City councilor murdered
Human rights group Karapatan, of which NNAHRA is an affiliate, called Patigas “the 48th Karapatan worker killed in the course of his human rights advocacy.”
NUPL: Ouster plot allegation ‘absurd’
“This has certainly gone over the walls of credulity. It is absolutely false, totally baseless and completely ludicrous,” the NUPL said in a statement.
No more talks with ‘deranged Duterte’–Sison
Sison also dismissed Duterte’s invitation for him to come home, saying his time is better spent on research, writing and publishing “without being distracted by back channel talks and flip-flops by the mentally, politically and morally deranged Duterte.”
Mga abugado humingi ng proteksyon sa Korte Suprema
Ayon kay Atty. Edre Olalia, pangulo ng NUPL, layunin ng petisyon na mabigyan sila ng proteksyon ng Kataas-taasang Hukuman laban sa mga banta at red-tagging sa kanilang mga kasapi.
CPJ finds ‘shrinking space for free press in PH’
“Government forces are finding new and increasingly sophisticated ways to shut down press freedom. So the attacks on Rappler and others have a chilling effect across all journalists. That is profoundly damaging the country’s democracy,” Greste said.
ACT Rep. France Castro wins Norwegian prize for work on trade union rights
Castro won the award for her many years of struggle to organize teachers and for fighting for basic workers rights in the Philippines, wrote the Svensson Foundation in a press statement.
Sison warns against Duterte’s ‘war panel’
Sison said the NDFP does not want to be baited into accepting a war panel of the Duterte regime, “whose purpose is merely to seek the impossible, such as the surrender of the revolutionary forces, especially the New People’s Army.”
2 urban poor activists abducted
They were accosted at gunpoint between 10:00 to 11:00 in the morning while posting posters of senatorial aspirant Neri Colmenares and partylist group Bayan Muna along Angat-Pandi Road, according to eyewitnesses.
Indigenous peoples demand justice for Lumad chieftain Datu Kaylo
Manobo tribal chieftain Datu Kaylo was reportedly killed by elements of the 3rd IB of the AFP Eastern Mindanao Command during its military operations in Kitaotao, Bukidnon last April 7.
Court summons served to 2 tech companies over cyber-attacks vs alternative news
“We welcome the serving of the summons before the two tech companies that were traced as sources of the cyberattacks against our sites, according to the digital forensic investigation of Sweden-based group Qurium,” said Rhea Padilla, national coordinator of AlterMidya – People’s Alternative Media Network, an umbrella organization of at least 30 alternative news agencies in the Philippines and one of the plaintiffs in the complaint.