A news anchor of a local radio station in Kidapawan City was shot dead on by a riding-in-tandem team last, Wednesday evening, July 10.
A Lumad leader and a farmer-activists were gunned down in separate incidents in the province of Bukidnon.
Karapatan Secretary General Cristina Palabay urged the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) member-states to support the move of the Iceland government on the promotion and protection of human rights in the Philippines during the council’s 41st session.
Progressive groups lambasted National Security Adviser Hermogenes Esperon Jr.’s for saying that they are lying to the public.
Davao Today columnist Margarita Valle filed criminal and administrative charges before the Office of the Ombudsman today against Philippine National Police and Army officers who arrested her and held her incommunicado for almost 12 hours last June 9.