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PNP personnel visit Erythrina Building after news on presence of armed men broke out last December 20. (Photo by Jinky Mendoza-Aguilar/Kodao)

Catholic shrine,activist organizations report police,military “harassment”

A revered Catholic Church shrine in Parañaque and a building housing activist organizations in Quezon City complained of harassments Thursday, reporting those police officers and suspected military agents are out to further intimidate institutions and organizations critical of the Rodrigo Duterte regime.

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Read more about the article Military has long been engaged in hamletting of Lumad communities — Pasaka
'PULL? ?OUT TROOPS'.Lumad group PASAKA holds protest outside the venue of the Indigenous Peoples Summit on Thursday, February 1, to call for President Rodrigo Duterte to pull ?out the soldiers from Lumad communities to pave way for the safe return of Lumad evacuees in UCCP Haran. (Mark Joy G. Basallajes/davaotoday.com)

Military has long been engaged in hamletting of Lumad communities — Pasaka

Soldiers have been undertaking the “hamletting” of indigenous communities in its all-out war against communist rebels, even before the statement of President Rodrigo Duterte, a militant lumad group in Mindanao decried.

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Read more about the article Poll watchdog warns: ‘Worst form of electoral fraud’ in the offing
A member of the Board of Election Inspectors (BEI) assists a voter at a poll precinct in Compostela town, Compostela Valley Province during the 2013 mid-term elections. (Ace R. Morandante/davaotoday.com)

Poll watchdog warns: ‘Worst form of electoral fraud’ in the offing

Poll watchdog Kontra Daya warns of a ‘no election’ scenario in 2019 with the lifting of term limits included in the draft federal constitution, considering it the “worst form of election fraud.”

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