The plan of the Duterte administration to implement a mandatory drug test in colleges and universities threatened students’ safety and education rights, an international human rights group said Saturday.
Carlos Conde, researcher for Asia Division of Human Rights Watch, said the deaths of two broadcast journalists and the attack on a newspaper columnist “highlight the need for the Duterte administration to deliver on promises to apprehend those responsible for the killings of journalists.”
A farmer leader in Compostela Valley has condemned the arrest as excessive of another farmer leader in the province.
Ruel Cololot, 35, admitted he once joined the New People’s Army but denied ownership or expertise in making the improvised explosive devices.
In the midst of continuing threats against their schools in Mindanao, more than a hundred displaced students of ?L?umad schools who joined the “Kampuhan” will continue their schooling in a state university in Quezon City.