By CHERYLL D. FIEL To treat Rebelyn’s case as a common crime totally exonerates the state of its culpability in the killing, said Kelly Delgado, secretary-general of the human rights group Karapatan.
By CHERYLL D. FIEL Davao lawyers are restive over the issue of the President’s impending appointment of a new Chief Justice, following a Supreme Court ruling which allows her to do this despite a standing ban on this action in the Philippine Constitution.
By CHERYLL D. FIEL A 74-year-old man, a 32-year-old mother, three farmers and two Bagobo lumads find themselves accused of the military’s trumped up charges as the government’s Oplan Bantay Laya (OBL) deadline to end the four-decades of Communist insurgency nears.
By CHERYLL D. FIEL Duterte announced he would assume the post of deputized head of the Davao City Police, a post he relinquished at the start of the Commission on Human Rights’ (CHR) probe into the summary killings in the city.
By CHERYLL D. FIEL The thought that they are working for justice, and that they are not alone in the fight, gave the surviving families of the Ampatuan massacre the courage to deal with their loss.