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National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) consultant Adelberto Silva and four companions were arrested Monday afternoon in Sta. Cruz, Laguna.
Bayan-GL condemned the arrest, “targeting members of organizations actively pursuing the call for genuine land reform and national industrialization.”
In a two-page order dated Oct. 1, Judge Alexander Tamayo of the Bulacan Regional Trial Court Branch 15 denied outright the motion of Palparan.
“Only tyrants and human rights violators stand to gain with the deaths of human rights defenders like Mariam Acob.”
In this 11-page verdict, Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte, US President Donald Trump, and international monetary organizations were found guilty of violating the political and economic rights and the right of the Filipino people to self-determination.
“The recent conviction of Palparan is a reminder to everyone that evil will never ever triumph.”
Asked how he knew the real names of his alleged former comrades, self-proclaimed rebel returnee and government witness Antonio Panisan said in Cebuano that they sometimes called one another by their real names.
“This is one step forward in our struggle. It is a good and beautiful beginning.”
How the promulgation will go on Monday, Sept. 17, matters to the Filipino people especially in light of the widespread, gross, and brutal killings under President Rodrigo Duterte, who virtually promised to absolve involved erring state security officers, particularly the police.
“The whole country is kept ignorant of our plight."
“Still, I would like to believe there is justice. I will fight for my son.”
Three mothers of victims of Duterte's drug war narrate how they have risen up from grief and despair to finding hope in the struggle for justice.
“The poor have been striving hard to get out of poverty but the President’s answer buried them instead, literally and figuratively.”
The UP community called on UP President Concepcion to institutionalize the honoring of Martial Law victims and martyrs in the university, create more spaces for their historical role in overthrowing the Marcos regime, and providing courses for in-depth discussion of the Martial Law atrocities.
“Academic freedom is less a matter of individual preference than the power and duty of a collective to defend human lives against killing machines, truth against lies and historical revisionism, and spaces of freedom against institutional complicity.”
"...we stress that the crime of which Mr. Ampatuan is accused of is of such a heinous nature that the shock and outrage it stirred around the world forced then President Gloria Arroyo to move against the powerful clan that was among her staunchest allies."
“…But what only the bureau fails to understand (or care about) is that you cannot predict that a person is fit to travel and not in danger from a deep vein thrombosis-which i have previously suffered-and nearly died from with a blood clot in my lung… it seems to me that the bureau is putting my life at risk.”
When asked by Bayan Muna party-list Representative Carlos Zarate whether the DOJ validated the names of more than 600 individuals alleged to be members of the CPP and NPA, Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra said the DOJ did not verify them and the names were only based on information given by intelligence agencies.
“NutriAsia is not only a violator of labor laws but a threat to press freedom.”
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