The newly installed spokesman of the Armed Forces of the Philippines on Monday disputed allegation that his new assignment in the military was a “PR initiative.”
Lawyers of former Palawan governor Joel Reyes asked the Court of Appeals to stop the Department of Justice (DOJ) from acting on the murder case of environmentalist and broadcaster Gerry Ortega.
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 ordered the Philippine National Police (PNP), Armed Forces of the Philippines, and National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) to conduct a thorough investigation into the alleged abduction and torture of Filipino-American activist Melissa Roxas.
More than 70 health workers, social workers, nuns, journalists and environmentalists have accused government soldiers of sabotaging their transportation, which had forced them to spend the night in a hinterland village in Baganga, Davao Oriental.
China on Sunday accused the United States of human rights violations through its military operations abroad and failing to prevent its own citizens from gun violence, in a rejoinder to a US rights report.
Yet another government body will take up the case of missing activist Jonas Burgos, son of the late press freedom icon Jose Burgos Jr.
Police have launched a massive hunt against a mayoral candidate tagged as the mastermind in last year’s killing of a municipal vice mayor in Capiz.
Justice Secretary Leila De Lima on Monday said she is standing firm on her right to freedom of expression in the face of contempt suit filed against her by former Palawan governor Joel Reyes.
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.
A Chinese woman sent to a labor camp for demanding seven men who kidnapped, raped and forced her then 11-year-old daughter into prostitution be punished went to court on Friday to sue for compensation.
The Egyptian military ordered senior doctors to operate without anaesthetic on protesters injured during demonstrations against military rule, according to extracts of a leaked report published in the Guardian newspaper on Friday.
Human rights lawyers are seriously considering amending the criminal complaint against military officials allegedly involved in the disappearance of activist Jonas Burgos.
