Stop extra-judicial killings in the Philippines

Dear friends, Further to our previous appeal (UA-34-2005) regarding the killings of human rights defenders and workers in Hacienda Luisita, Tarlac, Philippines, the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from the Promotion of Church People’s Response (PCPR) about another killing of a priest who supported workers on strike in Hacienda Luisita. Fr. William […]

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from a human rights non-government organization, Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan-Tarlac), regarding the killing of a human rights activist and council member of Tarlac City, Abelardo R. Ladera, on 4 March 2005. Ladera was shot dead by an unidentified person in a store in McArthur […]

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from the Promotion of Church People’s Response (PCPR) in Eastern Visayas regarding the attempt on the life of Fr. Allan Caparro (40) and his wife Aileen (34) on 18 February 2005. The couple survived the attempt but were seriously wounded. Aileen remains in the […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a human rights defender named Mr. Joel B. Baclao was shot dead outside his house in Barangay Lacag, Daraga, Albay on 10 November 2004 by an unidentified man. Mr. Baclao’s family suspects that the victim might have been killed by a person linked […]

Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is concerned by the information that another member of a party list organization has been killed in Mindoro Oriental, Philippines. Isaias Manano Jr, 23, was shot on his way home from visiting a mayoral candidate in Calapan city. Manano was the secretary general of Anakpawis-Mindoro Oriental (Toiling […]

Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission is forwarding information from the Task Force Detainees of the Philippines (TFDP) on killing of a civilian and serious injury of another in Barangay Gawang, Datu Saudi uy Ampatuan, Maguindanao, Philippines on 16 December 2003. The victims were mistakenly identified as members of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front […]

Dear Friends We are forwarding updated information from the Task Force Detainees of the Philippines (TFDP) regarding the killing of the Blancos, a Mangyan family, by elements of the 16th Infantry Batallion (IB) of the Philippine Army (PA). The Blanco family were part of the Hanunuo tribe, situated in Sitio Talayob, Nicolas, Magsaysay Occidental Mindoro. […]

SITUATION: On 21 April 2003 five Human Rights activists were abducted and two of them tortured and killed in Naujan Town, Oriental Mindoro province, Southern Tagalog. The bodies of Eden Marcellana, Secretary General of the Alyans sa Pagsusulong ng Karapatang Pantao in Southern Tagalog (Karapatan-ST), and Eddie Gumanoy, Chairperson of the peasant group, KASAMA-TK (Kasapian ng mga […]

Dear Friends, The following is a forwarded appeal from Task Force Detainees of the Philippines (TFDF) regarding a shooting incident in the city of Panabo on Mindanao Island in the Philippines on Jan. 6, 2003. This incident resulted in six people being seriously wounded with one of the victims dying in the hospital after seven […]

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is forwarding an appeal from the Task Force Detainees of the Philippines (TFDP), Mindanao, about the killing of three people and the wounding of three others by military officers belonging to the 25th Infantry Battalion (IB), Philippine Army in Matan-ao, Davao del Sur, Philippines. Those who were […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is forwarding information from the Task Force Detainees of the Philippines (TFDP)-Mindanaw, a human rights non-governmental organization in the Philippines, on the killings of three persons and a wound of one person by the elements of the 60th Infantry Battalion of the Philippine Army on April 24, 2004 […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is forwarding to you an appeal from the Task Force Detainees of the Philippines (TFDP) about the killing of Moises Fuentes, a farmer advocating for land reform in Maramag, Bukidnon. For more details, contact the TFDP: National Center, 45 Saint Mary Street Cubao, Quezon City, the Philippines; […]

Dr. Chee Soon Juan’s appeal against his conviction for attempting to travel without a permit will be heard tomorrow at the Supreme Court at 10 am before Judge Choo Han Teck. In March 2006, the SDP secretary-general had applied to travel to Turkey to attend a conference of the World Movement for Democracy. He was […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is forwarding to you an appeal from the International League of Peoples’ Struggle (ILPS) calling for the immediate release of labour leader Crispin Beltran, a Party list Representative of Anakpawis (“Toiling Masses”) in the Philippine Congress. Beltran was arrested on 25 February 2006, a day after Proclamation […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is forwarding to you an appeal from KARAPATAN (Alliance for the Advancement of People’s Rights), a human rights organization based in Manila. The group reported that a learning center, Bataris Formation Center, which was built by the religious groups, was torched by unidentified men believed to be […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is forwarding an appeal from \\KARAPATAN (Alliance for the Advancement of People’s Rights), a human rights organization in Manila, Philippines, regarding the disappearance of seven human rights activists, four of whom are peasants in Kabankalan City, Negros Occidental, Visayas on 30 September 2005. The victims have yet […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is forwarding an appeal from the  KARAPATAN (Alliance for the Advancement of People’s Rights), a human rights organization in Manila, Philippines, regarding the killing of another labor activist. Mrs. Victoria Samonte (51), the regional vice-chair of the KMU-CARAGA which is the leading labor alliance in the Philippines, […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is forwarding to you an appeal from  human rights organization KARAPATAN (Alliance for the Advancement of People’s Rights)-National Office in Manila, Philippines regarding the killing of Diosdado Fortuna (50), a labor leader in Calamba City, Luzon on 22 September 2005. Fortuna is the latest victim in the […]

That the Philippines police task force (Usig) should resolve at least ten cases of alleged extrajudicial killings within ten weeks was the statement reported to have been made by President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo   Other reports quoting persons from the presidential palace could not clearly state whether this was an order or just a public […]