Two Manobo community in Surigao del Sur are reportedly fearful of military operations that have led to an arrest of a resident in the midst of the quarantine and pandemic.
A Lumad school teacher revealed that alleged “state-sponsored” attacks on schools continue in the course of the two-month lockdown due to the coronavirus disease (Covid-19).
A community college in Davao de Oro decries how the provincial government has handled the turnover of their stranded student-scholars who wanted to go home.
The rescue last Friday of Covid-19 patient Arani Hajiba who went missing for days was met with mixed responses of condemnation to sympathy from netizens.
A Catholic priest in Surigao del Sur has been red-tagged on Facebook for his advocacy supporting the Lumad school Alcadev.
A 61-year old peasant activist has died in detention on Monday, renewing calls from human rights groups for the release of the elderly and sickly political detainees amid the pandemic.
195 inmates in detention facilities nationwide have contracted the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and has raised calls again for decongestion of jails from groups.
Jose Reynaldo “Jory” Porquia was shot dead by still unidentified men in his coffee shop at Brgy. Sto. Niño, Arevalo District. It was reported that some witnesses near the crime scene heard several gunshots and saw mask-wearing men.
Karapatan criticized Solicitor General (OSG) Jose Calida for opposing the petition filed by 22 elderly and sick political prisoners at the Supreme Court as a form of “double standard of justice” that endangers lives of prisoners amid the coronavirus 2019 (Covid-19) pandemic.
Following the fatal shooting of former soldier Winston Ragos, a forensic and a human rights official question the Quezon City Police’s assertion that the shooting was a “judgment call”.
