Cardinal Tagle tells Edita Burgos not to lose hope in search for Jonas
By Tina G. Santos
It has been six years since farmer-activist Jonas Burgos disappeared, but his mother Edita never wavered in hoping and believing that he is still alive.
It has been six years since farmer-activist Jonas Burgos disappeared, but his mother Edita never wavered in hoping and believing that he is still alive.
The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) will join the Commission on Human Rights in conducting further investigation on the disappearance of activists Jonas Burgos.
The Supreme Court has granted a temporary protection order (TPO) to Edita Burgos and members of her immediate family following her presentation of new evidence linking more soldiers to the 2007 disappearance of her farmer-activist son, Jonas.
The Supreme Court has ordered the Department of Justice and the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) to provide security and protection to the family of missing activist Jonas Burgos.
As new evidence surfaced purportedly implicating the Armed Forces of the Philippines in the 2007 abduction of Jonas Burgos, Malacañang said on Tuesday that courts exacted justice based on evidence and presumed suspects to be innocent until proven guilty.
The family of missing activist Jonas Burgos on Monday asked the Supreme Court to order the Court of Appeals to admit new evidence surrounding the disappearance of Burgos and conduct further hearing on the case.
After President Aquino approved the promotion and appointment of the chief of the country’s top military spy agency, the mother of missing activist Jonas Burgos said she had lost hope that the human rights situation would improve.
A year after being charged for the disappearance of farmer-activist Jonas Burgos, three retired generals and an Army major appeared at the Department of Justice (DOJ) on Friday for the first preliminary investigation hearing of the case.
Throughout the five years that she has been searching for her “disappeared” son, Edita Burgos says she has already scaled down her expectations, from calling for justice to just wanting to find out the truth about what happened to him.
President Benigno Aquino III should now step in and order the Armed Forces of the Philippines to release University of the Philippines students Sherlyn Cadapan and Karen Empeño and Bulacan farmer Manuel Merino, Edita Burgos said on Wednesday. As commander in chief, Mr. Aquino has the power to compel the AFP to comply with the [...]
Edita Burgos yesterday brought her crusade to find her missing son Jonas to the Department of Justice. In a 15-page complaint-affidavit, Burgos accused Army Major Harry Baliaga of arbitrary detention based on the findings of the Commission on Human Rights(CHR), identifying him as Jonas’ “primary abductor.” Jonas, then 37, was taken by unidentified armed men [...]
