MANILA — House Deputy Minority Leader and Bayan Muna Rep. Satur C. Ocampo today
urged Congress to immediately pass a bill banning and penalizing the
crime of enforced disappearances.
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MANILA — Senate minority leader Aquilino Pimentel Jr. today revealed that hundreds of ballot boxes containing what he called ?prefabricated election returns? have been intercepted by volunteers of the political opposition in Sindangan, Zamboanga del Norte.
The election returns in the 380 ballot boxes have already been filled with the names of the Arroyo administration?s candidates for senators in Monday?s elections. Pimentel said they discovered the ballot boxes on May 9, after volunteers from the Genuine Opposition were informed about it by members of the Philippine National Police.
MANILA — Police officials in Davao and General Santos City are now better equipped to investigate instances of terrorism, thanks to an equipment donation from the U.S. Department of State?s Anti-terrorism Assistance Program (ATA).
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Concerned citizens led by former DOST Undersecretary Josie Lichauco, Bettina Legarda, Marilyn Orosa, national artist Bienvenido Lumbera, Nini Quezon-Avance?a, and lawyer Harry Roque march on Ayala Avenue on Friday to…
National Democratic Front of the Philippines
Mindanao
Press Statement
May 8, 2007
Fight systematic fraud being perpetrated by the Arroyo ruling clique in the May 2007 elections
(A call for sincere officials of Comelec)
The National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDF) ?Mindanao is calling on all sincere officials of the GRP’s Commission on Elections (COMELEC) in various regions in Mindanao to stand up for truth and integrity in the May 2007 GRP elections.
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