Law bans hit list of gov’t enemies
By Michael Lim UbacThe military is now prohibited from issuing a hit list—officially called “order of battle”—with the enactment of a law against enforced disappearances, Malacañang said on Saturday.
The military is now prohibited from issuing a hit list—officially called “order of battle”—with the enactment of a law against enforced disappearances, Malacañang said on Saturday.
THE FALLOUT from the Aman Futures pyramid scam has spiraled into a string of abductions involving angry investors and company agents taking the brunt for lost fortunes and blighted lives.
A spokesman for the Armed Forces of the Philippines maintained on Thursday that the military was not behind activist Jonas Burgos’ abduction. But he said the AFP would cooperate in the judicial process to identify those responsible for the crime.
Today (June 26), five years since the disappearance of University of the Philippines (UP) students Karen Empeño and Sherlyn Cadapan, friends and family continue to call for their release from military custody. To highlight the call, human rights groups UP Kilos Na, Karapatan and Desaparecidos will hold a “run against torture” and “for justice” today [...]
Human rights lawyers helping the families of missing student activists Karen Empeno and Sherlyn Cadapan have hailed the Supreme Court decision ordering the military to release them, saying the ruling has strengthened the criminal complaint filed by their families against retired general Jovito Palparan and other military officials at the Department of Justice.
