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PRESS RELEASE: KARAPATAN-ST condemns illegal arrest and detention of two KADAMAY-ST leaders; slams CIDG for accusing the victims as NPA
After vehemently denying that the two Kalipunan ng Damayang Mahihirap (KADAMAY-ST) leaders were in their custody, the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) stationed inside the Camp Vicente Lim compound eventually admitted last 08 February 2012 that Evelyn Legaspi and Pastora Latagan are detained in their camp. Legaspi, regional council member of KADAMAY-ST, and Latagan, a regional staff of the same alliance, were illegally arrested last 07 February 2012 in Baranggay Maitim, Bay, Laguna by suspected elements of the police and military from the 202nd Infantry Brigade and 22nd military intelligence company.
PRESS RELEASE: KADAMAY-ST LEADERS ABDUCTED, REMAIN MISSING TO THIS DAY
Two members of the urban poor alliance Kalipunan ng Damayang Mahihirap- ST (KADAMAY-ST) were reportedly abducted last 07 February 2012, 5:30 PM in Baranggay Maitim, Bay, Laguna by suspected elements of the police and military from the 202nd Infantry Brigade and 22nd military intelligence company.
Press Release: UPLB students face police and military harassment while on immersion with local farmers
CALATAGAN, BATANGAS – Eight members of a UP Los Baños based student organization, UPLB Zoomout Multimedia Collective, cried foul today over what they considered as “an obvious act of political harassment” by government forces.
According to Zoomout head Raymart Narciso, military and police personnel in two instances today tried to intimidate them while they were conducting an immersion program with local farmers and fisherfolk in Barangay Hukay, Calatagan Town in Batangas.
Kapatid ng kabilang sa Morong 43, Pinaslang; Kaso ng Pampulitikang Panunupil, Nadagdagan
[Mamburao, Occidental Mindoro]— Disyembre 13 ng ika-6:30 ng gabi, pinaslang sa loob mismo ng kanilang tahanan si Guillermo Castillo, 46 taong gulang, sa Sitio Tuguilan, Barangay Tayamaan, Occidental Mindoro. Sa harapan ng kanyang asawa ay pinagbabaril siya ng mga nakasuot ng bonnet at hinihinalang mula sa 80thInfantry Batallion of Philippine Army. Bago ang pagpatay ay … Read more
Press Release | ‘Occupy Mendiola’ dispersal on human rights week exposes Aquino’s fascism
Human rights advocates in Southern Tagalog (ST) headed by Karapatan-ST expressed condemnation to yesterday’s brutal dispersal by police forces of mostly youth protesters geared for “Occupy Mendiola”.
“It is ironic for such a clear-cut violation of human rights to happen exactly during the Human Rights week and days before our commemoration of United Nation’s International Declaration of Human Rights,” Glen Malabanan, deputy secretary general of Karapatan-ST stressed. She said that this only shows how the Aquino government blatantly disrespects the people’s just demands and is no different from the previous Arroyo administration’s use of state fascism as the only answer to the people’s grievances.
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