UNA seeks justice for husband of mayor
The United Nationalist Alliance (UNA) in Iloilo has challenged the Philippine National Police to solve the killing of the husband of a reelectionist mayor.
The United Nationalist Alliance (UNA) in Iloilo has challenged the Philippine National Police to solve the killing of the husband of a reelectionist mayor.
The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) will join the Commission on Human Rights in conducting further investigation on the disappearance of activists Jonas Burgos.
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.
Human rights lawyers are seriously considering amending the criminal complaint against military officials allegedly involved in the disappearance of activist Jonas Burgos.
A vice mayoral candidate of Mobo town in Masbate died early Sunday after he was repeatedly shot by two men, shattering hopes of peace advocates in a province notorious for its election-related bloodshed.
Fearing for their safety following the murder of one of their leaders, the Ati people and their supporters have called on the government to deploy more policemen in their community here.
The fiancée of slain Dutch activist Wilhelmus Geertman has petitioned the Department of Justice (DOJ) to charge his killers with murder and robbery.
Family, friends and colleagues of environmental activist and radio host Joey Estriber gathered in Baler, Aurora, on Sunday to condemn the seventh year of his disappearance.
The murder of a Pangasinan mayor on Saturday has validated the government’s decision to include the province among areas of concern in the 2013 elections, Liberal Party (LP) leaders here said in a statement.
Leaders of indigenous peoples’ groups, human rights advocates, environment defenders and families of victims of extrajudicial killings in Mindanao have decided to take their protest to Manila.
Justice Secretary Leila De Lima said the decision of the Supreme Court disallowing live media coverage of the Maguindanao massacre trial was “not a good move, not a good development.”
The Cordillera Human Rights Alliance (CHRA) disclosed this week a purported list of military targets that includes farmers and a CHRA official who have been tagged as communist rebels or sympathizers.
In March 2006, former Occidental Mindoro Rep. Jose Villarosa was sentenced to death, along with peasant leaders collectively known as “Mamburao 6,” for the murder of brothers Michael and Paul Quintos, sons of Villarosa’s political rival, Ricardo Quintos.
