“It is with great grief and rage that we say farewell to such a man, who, at the last decade of his life, was refused his freedom. We hold the Aquino government responsible for this injustice done to Ka Eddik.”
To honor the man and his principles and to rage against the injustices that he has been a victim of, Bulatlat.com is printing the articles we published about Eduardo Serrano.
“His plight, and that of many political prisoners, shows us the continuing injustice prevailing under the Aquino regime.”
“Six years into his term, Aquino has only galvanized the fact that those who expose state excesses and injustices are bound to suffer behind bars or face possible death sentence in the hands of his fascist forces.”
“I have already suffered 11 years of unjust and cruel detention as a political prisoner.”
"As it stands now, we find Eduardo Serrano not 'judicially charged' under any resolution, information or amended information.”
Eduardo Serrano is the longest held detainee among the 14 NDFP peace consultants who are covered by the Joint Agreement on Safety and Immunity Guarantees.
By RONALYN V. OLEA
Political prisoners from all over the country commemorated the International Day of Solidarity with Political Prisoners, December 3, by a simultaneous reading of a poem about the longing for freedom.
By RONALYN V. OLEA
“The charges are baseless but with the slow judicial system, the military has made it a point that we languish in jail for long.”
Sidebar: Camp Bagong Diwa, one of the most restrictive jails in the country
“How can we claim to be under a democracy when a political prisoner continues to languish in jail even as all the trumped-up charges filed against her have already been dismissed?”
At 55, political prisoner Eduardo Serrano still has not stopped learning. He recounts the lessons he learned while living with the Mangyans, when he was arrested, and now while in jail. He even decided to take his master's degree while behind bars. BY DABET...
(Starting with my Marcellana-Serrano-Roslin-Roson Lineage) BY EDUARDO SERRANO DEMOCRATIC SPACE Posted by Bulatlat Vol. VIII, No. 9, April 6-12, 2008 For almost a month now, our country’s cradle of democracy is being rocked with a gathering storm of contradictory...
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