The Department of Education is being urged to implement an academic health break for both teachers and students in areas where there is a surge in COVID-19 cases.
Day: January 11, 2022
Group condemns abduction of political prisoner’s wife in Bacolod
Before the incident, Joyna Lacio Sabanal received several death threats through messages and calls from suspected state agents.
Rights group says PH jails ‘least safe from Omicron’
“The extreme congestion of Philippine prisons create a perfect petri dish to seed immense infections by the highly transmissible Omicron variant.”
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By DEE AYROSO
Group welcomes release of longest-held political prisoner
“We commend the decision of the court and we hope this will presage more releases of political prisoners who are foisted with trumped-up charges in retaliation for their activism or to make them the fall guy to take the blame for NPA operations.”