March 21, 2010
Human-Rights Lawyer Target of State Surveillance
Published on July 5, 2006
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By Cheryll D. Fiel
davaotoday.com
DAVAO CITY — A human-rights lawyer in Cagayan de Oro has allegedly been the subject of surveillance by men believed to be agents of the Philippine military, raising fears about her safety.
Two unidentified men were seen casing the office of Beverly Selim-Musni, one of the more prominent human-rights lawyer in Mindanao who is also the chairperson of the group Karapatan in Cagayan de Oro City, since June 27, according to the Initiatives for Peace in Mindanao (InPeace), a nongovernment peace advocacy group where Musni is also one of the convenors.
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thanks for having this article….
it’s a timely write-up in defying the desperate mood of GMA against defenders as being the subjects to attacks and worst,to political killings elsewhere in the country.
hope, u can have another article, citing forms of attacks of paralegals.
can i send this article to some of my friends? but there’s a technical problem in forwarding it….
[...] “They hardly even knew me,” lawyer Beverly Selin-Musni, a convenor of InPeace Mindanao, said of the vendors who had spoken to her about the strange men. “They’re unorganized — people who don’t belong to the people’s organizations but they were honest enough to tell me,” Musni told a recent Mindanao gathering for peace attended by over a hundred people displaced by war. [...]