“Last Thursday, December 16, this ‘empty can which made the loudest noise through the years went straight to the place it deserves: the trash can,’” Kapatid spokesperson Fides Lim said.
“[The government]…failed to scientifically prove that the subject skeletal remains exhumed in Mt. Sapang Dako, Barangay Kaulisihan, Inopacan, Leyte on August 26-29, 2006 belong to the latter and [that]…the accounts of its eye-witnesses as regards how they were killed, who killed them and other surrounding circumstances behind their deaths are palpably unreliable,” Manila Regional Trial Court Branch 32 said.
“Osmeña’s shooting happened proximate to the upcoming election period – a period in our country perennially marred by violence and extrajudicial attempts to stifle media,” the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines’ Cebu chapter said.
“France and Germany are deeply concerned by the repression or threats to which human rights defenders are subjected to. The protection and promotion of human rights and the rule of law throughout the world remain top priorities in our two countries’ foreign policies as we strive to achieve a world that is built on peace, equality and justice. These values are at the heart of the Franco-German Human Rights Prize, which was created precisely to pay tribute to those who have devoted, and who continue to devote, their body and soul to the defense of human rights everywhere. Indeed, human rights defenders such as Cristina must be protected and supported,” French Ambassador Michele Boccoz said.
“Theres no forward planning by the OWWA…There is no OWWA pre-arrival check of the rooms. Don’t they have any standard room requirement for quarantine? My housemates (as we call our collective group) were so stressed out from travel and the long wait in the garage (lobby extension),” a returning OFW complained.
“Other dangerous provisions on designation, proscription, warrantless arrests and prolonged detention remain and must be challenged. We will prepare our motion for reconsideration as we study the SC ruling when it is released,” Bagong Alyansang Makabayan secretary general Renato Reyes Jr. said.
The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP), the Economic Journalists Association of the Philippines (EJAP), and the Cebu City Press Council (CCPC) said in separate statement they deplore the libel charges filed last week by energy secretary Alfonso Cusi and Duterte campaign donor Dennis Uy against the news outfits.
Kodao’s post of Altermidya Network’s statement “On the incredulous red-tagging of Altermidya Network at the Dec. 1 Senate hearing” won in the awards’ Human Rights Network’s Posts category, receiving the most number of clicks in a poll held last November 10 to 25 on HRonlinePH’s website and Facebook page.
“Perhaps there is already a form of accommodation for Rodrigo Duterte under a Marcos-Sara Duterte tandem,” Bagong Alyansang Makabayan secretary general Renato Reyes Jr. said.
“A thief, a liar, a convicted tax evader, and the unrepentant son of an ousted dictator should never be allowed to hold or run for public office — much more the highest and most powerful position in the land,” CARMMA said in a statement.
