Human Rights

Bayan Muna leader cried ‘Pulis! Pulis!’

The human-rights group Karapatan details the abduction of Gilbert Rey Cardino, Bayan Muna's coordinator in the SOCSKSARGEN area. "Ayon sa testigo na driver ng tricycle na sinasakyan ni Jing na si Phinney Tolentino, muntik na niyang mabundol ang L-300 van sa biglang pagharang nito sa daanan. Nagsibabaan ang limang lalaki na halos naka-barber's cut ang gupit o mukhang mga military. Ang isa ay nakablack long sleeve shirt na may 'police' sa likod na nakasulat. Hinatak palabas ng tricycle si Jing ng apat na lalaki, dalawa sa magkabilang balikat at dalawa sa magkabilang paa." | Earlier story: Bayan Muna leader in Koronadal abducted

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Philippines high court fails to review case of ‘Abadilla 5’

UA-182-2007: PHILIPPINES: Supreme Court fails to review death
sentences of five torture victims seven years on

PHILIPPINES: Torture; falsification of police records; denial of the
right to have a fair trial; excessive court delays; denial of
detainees rights to adequate medical attention; lack of domestic
judicial remedy
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Militant peasants to help in CHR probe

?AFP systematically delaying investigation on Jonas? case!?-KMP

MANILA — The militant Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) together with church people from different denominations gathered today at the Miriam College for the Interfaith Rural Congress to call for genuine land reform and to demand that those who were abducted by military forces be surfaced immediately to be with their friends and family. Relatives of the disappeared are also present at the congress.

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Arroyo to 14th Congress: Prioritize bill on human rights victims

MANILA — President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo is renewing her call to the incoming 14th Congress to prioritize the passage of a bill that would provide compensation to victims of human rights violations during the martial law regime, Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita announced today.

The President, for the second time, certified as urgent Senate Bill No. 1745, otherwise known as the Human Rights Victims Compensation Act of 2004, Ermita said.
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Bayan Muna leader in Koronadal abducted

Jing Cardino

Gilbert Rey "Jing" Cardino was abducted at around 11 a.m. today at Crossing, Barrio 2, Koronadal City. At 27, he is the youngest member of Bayan Muna's national council. House Deputy Minority Leader and Bayan Muna Rep. Satur Ocampo quickly denounced the abduction and demanded that the military, whom he suspected of being behind the kidnapping, surface Cardino. Joel Virador, also a Bayan Muna congressman, urged Arroyo to order the military and the police to stop these enforced disappearances. "Without such an explicit, publicly stated order, more activists will either be killed or abducted," Virador said.

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