DAVAO CITY, Philippines — An activist farmer leader was reportedly harassed and interrogated by armed men suspected to be military agents in his residence in Mandug on Monday evening, prompting…
Indigenous peoples groups in Mindanao salute the late former environment secretary Gina Lopez as a "rare ally" in their struggle to protect the ancestral land from mining and other destructive activities.
Davao City Police Office (DCPO) Director Alexander Tagum said they plan to deploy police intelligence inside the premises of at least five schools to monitor the activities of "left-leaning organizations" whom he accused as fronts of the Communist Party of the Philippines-New People's Army (CPP-NPA).
Students of the University of the Philippines (UP) are set to stage a systemwide protest next week to oppose the proposed entry of police and military inside state universities, including UP.
Bayan Muna Party-list rejected the proposal of Interior Secretary Eduardo Año to revive the Anti-Subversion Law, saying it will be "a throwback to Marcosian dictatorship."