MANILA — The Supreme Court has ordered the vice-mayor of Mabalacat, Pampanga to head its local government until June 30, 2007 after it unseated Mabalacat Mayor Marino ?Boking? Morales whom it found ineligible to have run in the 2004 elections. The decision is immediately executory.
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10 May 2007
Source: Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility (CMFR)
Two journalists from the Foreign Correspondents Association of the Philippines (Focap) were banned from entering the Philippine Marines headquarters in Taguig City on 9 May 2007 for an arranged interview with jailed opposition senatorial candidate and former Navy officer Antonio Trillanes IV.
Focap is the organization of foreign correspondents based in the Philippines.
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MANILA — The umbrella group Bagong Alyansang Makabayan slammed the Armed Forces of the Philippines for spinning ?blatant lies about the disappearances of Jonas Burgos despite circumstantial evidence pointing the Army?s involvement.?
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10 May 2007 ? Acting Head of Post Wilfredo C. Santos of the Philippine Consulate General in San Francisco, USA reported to the Department of Foreign Affairs that the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Program in collaboration with the Bay Area Filipino Centennial Committee and the Filipino American National Historical Society (FANHS) held a symposium on Filipino American history to herald the remarkable experiences of Filipino people and families who lived in America since the first sustained migration of Filipinos in the country.
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UA-156-2007: PHILIPPINES: Forcible abduction and disappearance of five persons including a mother of two-month-old twin
PHILIPPINES: Forcible abduction and enforced disappearance; delays in
conduct of investigation; violence against women
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Dear friends,
The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) deeply regrets to inform you
the cases regarding the forcible abduction and subsequent
disappearance of five more persons, including a mother of
two-month-old twins, in separate incidents in March and April 2007.
The whereabouts of the victims, namely Josephine Nogoy (32) of
Tarlac, Alan Bumanglag of Cagayan, Jonas Joseph Burgos and his
companion Melissa Reyes and another person (name unknown) of Quezon
City, all in Luzon areas, have remained unknown. All of the victims
were either members or have been closely involved in helping peasant
groups prior to their abduction.
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