Being full-time teachers is not easy for them, but quitting the job was never their option.
Activists who were acquitted of kidnapping charge are planning to file counter charges against the military who allegedly manufactured the complaints filed against them.
Some 200 visitors from 25 countries worldwide will attend a conference on human rights, focusing on the killings of the indigenous peoples or Lumads in Mindanao.
Thousands of indigenous peoples and human rights activists from Davao region prepared for their travel by land going to Manila via Surigao City as early as 5:00 am on Tuesday.
Acting City Mayor Paolo Duterte has called on the Davao City Police Office to conduct a thorough probe on the violent attack against two Lumad leaders here on Friday last week, July 15.
The Department of Justice dismissed the kidnapping and serious illegal detention charges against 15 human rights activists on Monday afternoon, July 18.
Armed men riding in tandem killed the secretary of a Parent-Teachers Association of a Lumad school here while his companion, a tribal leader was critically wounded in an attack on Friday afternoon in Barangay Manuel Guianga, Tugbok District here.
Hope seems bright for the 15 activists here who are facing kidnapping and serious illegal detention charges of Lumad evacuees after the accusers issued their affidavits of recantation and desistance.
A columnist for a local newspaper, whose son is among those charged with kidnapping and serious illegal detention of tribal residents inside a church compound here, appealed to her colleagues in the press to help out in setting the records straight that those accused are not kidnappers.
The family of slain anti-Communist Ata tribal leader Ruben Labawan insisted on his innocence to the accusations hurled by the New People’s Army (NPA), who owned responsibility to the killing.
