‘Bloom Where You Are Planted’ subjects receive threats, surveillance
“The production team strongly condemns these attacks which only prove the State’s fright against the film’s message that activism is not terrorism,” the film’s producers said.
Victims’ kin rejoice over Duterte’s continuing imprisonment
“Nagpapasalamat kami sa Appeals Chamber sa pakikinig sa aming panaghoy para sa hustisya. Dapat manatili sa kulungan si Duterte habang dinidinig ang kaso laban sa kanya,” Llore Pasco, who lost two sons, said.
Bakit 99% na siguradong hindi pagbibigyan ng pansamantalang kalayaan si Duterte
Dahil sa matibay na factual at legal findings ng Pre-Trial Chamber, walang dahilan para baliktarin ang desisyon nila noong September na hindi i-grant ang interim release. Sa madaling salita, walang batayan para palayin si Duterte.
On PNP’s filing of charges vs a campus journalist
“How low can the police go? Public funds meant to aid the PNP are being used to harass youth leaders who staunchly resist the biggest corruption scandal brought about by the Marcos-Duterte administration. If our taxes are spent this way, it only proves the long-standing history of the police serving the corrupt system from which they benefit.”
Rights group: Is Warden Crisyrel Awe untouchable?
“Why is Warden Awe given special treatment, even as drugs reportedly continue inside the jail, while PDLs are subjected to a stranglehold of control, deprivation, and arbitrary punishment?” said Fides Lim, Kapatid spokesperson.
Rights lawyer to Jonvic: Marcos resignation calls not seditious
“Mr. Remulla should be reminded that calls for the resignation of Marcos, in light of the allegations of corruption in government, are covered by the guarantees and protections afforded by the Constitution regarding free expression, the right to peaceful assembly, and redress of grievances,” Cortez said.
Do Not Mourn
Don’t mourn!/Don’t honor!//The one who died/had unredeemed/criminal guilt/against humanity!
Long trial on massacre of PH’s foremost botanist, colleagues nearing promulgation
The decade-and-a-half trial on the massacre of the country’s most famed botanist and his colleagues 15 years ago today is due for promulgation, his family announced.
Rights group raises alarm on latest harassment against poet
The Samahan ng mga Ex-Detainee Laban sa Detensyon at Aresto (SELDA) revealed that two suspicious persons, one of them a woman, visited de Vera ostensibly to talk to her about her “insurance.”
‘Personification of impunity,’ martial law survivors remember Enrile
CARMMA said Enrile oversaw at least 3,257 documented extrajudicial killings, 35,000 cases of torture, 737 enforced disappearances, and 70,000 detentions, with 2,520 of those killed subjected to torture and mutilation as key implementer of the dictatorship.