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UPDATE (Philippines): Abadilla Five’s petition to review conviction suffers further delay

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you regarding further delays in the conclusion of the Petition for Review on Certiorari that the Abadilla Five has filed. We pre...

PHILIPPINES: A man falsely charged with terrorism

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you that a man, whom a prosecutor had falsely charged for committing acts of terror, has been continuously held in detention for...

UPDATE (Philippines): Court orders release of falsely charged activists

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is pleased to inform you that the five persons, three of whom are activists, illegally arrested and falsely charged in April 2006, were released ...

PHILIPPINES: Four activists receiving threatening messages for investigating disappearance

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes with deep concern that four human rights activists, all of whom are staff members of the Alliance for the Advancement of Peoples Rights (K...

PHILIPPINES: More to worry about 13,000 shotguns for civilians in Mindanao 

AMID growing insecurity and communal violence in conflict areas in Mindanao, the government is now unleashing another stealth move by allowing Secretary Ronaldo Puno of the Department of Interior and ...

PHILIPPINES: Police endorsing vigilantism by arming civilians

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is concerned by the reported pronouncement of the Deputy Director General, chief of the Philippine National Police (PNP), Avelino Razon Jr., that they are ship...

UPDATE (Philippines): A Pastor previously harassed by armed men again threatened with death

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you that, a Pastor whom we reported in October 2006 to have been harassed by armed men, is once again being threatened with deat...

PHILIPPINES: Abadilla Five write to family of murder victim as they present evidence of their innocence 

New Bilibid Prison Muntinlupa City 21 August 2008 Dear Loved Ones of the Late Col. Rolando N. Abadilla, Greetings of Peace!   We take this opportunity to reach out to you, first of all in sympathy w...

UPDATE (Philippines): Lawyers demand adequate action, protection of witnesses

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you that a group of lawyers in Mindanao has joined appeals for the authorities to exhaust every effort in solving cases of vigil...

PHILIPPINES: Protection for witnesses of vigilante killings in Davao City urgently needed

The AHRC writes with deep concern that 25 persons, including three children and a lady have been murdered in separate incidents from February to June of this year in Davao City. The manner in which th...

PHILIPPINES: Mindanao lawyers reaffirm concerns over “vigilante killings”

(Hong Kong, August 8, 2008) The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) today reiterates its concerns, which are also shared by the group of lawyers in Mindanao, of an urgent need for authorities to have...

PHILIPPINES: Labour department’s complicity in unlawful acts deprives sexually abused workers from creating a union

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you that several union leaders and factory workers of a footwear company were illegally terminated when some of their female col...

PHILIPPINES: Court of Appeals’ dismissal of amparo petitions encourage extrajudicial killings, enforced disappearance 

CA SERIAL DISMISSALS OF AMPARO PETITIONS: ENCOURAGING THE ESCALATION OF EXTRA JUDICIAL KILLINGS AND ENFORCED DISAPPEARANCES The NUPL strongly criticizes the recent spate of decisions by the Court of A...

PHILIPPINES: Delay endorses extrajudicial killing, inequality before law – responses to Abadilla Five case

(Hong Kong, July 28, 2008) All the respondents from interviews conducted by the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) agreed that the delays in the trial of the Abadilla Five case highlighted the endem...

UPDATE (Philippines): A police director tries to exonerate officers from responsibility of unsolved cases over lack of witnesses

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you that the police authorities, in particular in Davao City, are now trying to exonerate themselves from their continued failur...

ASIA/HONG KONG: AHRC supports petition to suspend levy of all foreign helper’s contracts

(Hong Kong, July 25, 2008)  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) supports a petition seeking the suspension of a levy, not only for new but for existing contracts of Foreign Domestic Helpers (FDH...

UPDATE (Philippines): Over twelve persons murdered separately, including two young boys

Dear friends, The Asian Human rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you that vigilante groups have murdered another 13 persons, two of whom are minors, in separate incidents from February 2 to Jun...

UPDATE (Philippines): Solicitor General told to comment on the petition of Abadilla Five in ten days

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed that the Supreme Court (SC) has already required the Office of the Solicitor General (OSG) to comment on the Petition for Revie...

UPDATE (Philippines): Police’ failure to solve “vigilante killings” aggravates murder

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been receiving information continuously that more persons have been murdered recently, including minors and women, on the pretext of “v...

UPDATE (Philippines): Court to hear case of activists, others falsely charged two years ago

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you that the five men, collectively known as the Tagaytay Five, whom we reported to have been missing but were later found in po...