Extrajudicial Killings

‘Miss-Ogyny’


'Miss-Ogyny'. Members of the Gabriela Network in New York held last week a "beauty pageant" to dramatize the killings of political activists, many of them women, in the Philippines. Photo shows a GABNet member dressed like a beauty queen, with a sash saying ?Miss-Ogyny,? and holding a purple umbrella decked with small placards containing photos of Philippine women victims of political killings. (GABnet photo) | Read Davao Today's coverage of the extrajudicial killings in the Philippines | More Davao Today photographs

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SC dismisses rebellion raps vs Batasan 6

The Philippine Supreme Court today dismissed the rebellion cases against six leftist congressmen known as the "Batasan 6," among them Anakpawis Rep. Crispin Beltran who has been detained in the past 15 months. "We are vindicated. This is a triumph of truth and justice over the Arroyo government's invented and unfair charge against duly elected people's representatives," Bayan Muna Rep. Satur Ocampo said.

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‘I’m not going to Melo panel; Ermita cannot speak for me’ — Satur

MANILA — House Deputy Minority Leader and Bayan Muna President Satur Ocampo
today categorically denied that he has agreed to testify before the
Melo Commission regarding extrajudicial killings of activists,
including 130 members of Bayan Muna.

“I have not made any statement that we are ready to appear before the
Melo Commission. Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita is not authorized
to speak for me or Bayan Muna,” said Ocampo.
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Philippines welcomes leftist solon’s decision to testify on killings

MANILA — Malacanang welcomed today the move of Rep. Satur Ocampo of the militant party-list Bayan Muna and the Alliance for the Advancement of Human Rights (KARAPATAN) to participate in the investigation of the extrajudicial killings and other human rights violations being conducted by the Melo Commission.
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