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[RE: UA-216-2005: Soldiers kill nine farmers in Leyte, Visayas; UP-141-2005: Peasants were brutally massacred by soldiers; pregnant woman among the dead; UP-019-2006: PHILIPPINES: Possible irregularit...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) deeply regrets to inform you that two more activists have been killed in separate incidents on 7 and 17 March 2006 in Mabini, Bohol and Hacienda ...

PHILIPPINES: Extra-judicial killing; violence against activists; abduction and enforced disappearance; torture; threats and intimidation of civilians by military; inadequate police investigation ̵...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) regrets to inform you that another human rights activist has been killed while another one has survived an attempt on her life in separate incide...

On 3 March 2006, Joey Estriber was waiting for a lift home in Baler, Aurora, when four armed men suddenly dragged him into a nearby van and drove off. Days later, Rogelio Concepcion was also forcibly ...

PHILIPPINES: Abduction and forcible disappearance; violence against human rights activists by military; inadequate investigation; absence of an enabling law to seek justice, remedies and prosecute per...

[RE: UA-251-2005: PHILIPPINES: Brutal torture of a 25-year-old man over mistaken identity in General Santos City, Mindanao; UP-007-2006: PHILIPPINES: Investigation into the brutal torture of a man by ...

In a letter dated 21 January 2006, the City Director of the General Santos City Police Office (GSCPO), Senior Superintendent Alfredo Toroctocon wrote to the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) to den...

AHRC-OL-004-2006 9 March 2006 An Open Letter to the City Police Director of the General Santos City Police Office (GSCPO) Senior Superintendent Alfredo Toroctocon City Police Director General Santos C...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from the Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR), a labour and human rights organisation based in Quezon City, d...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received further information from a reliable source regarding the continued illegal detention of a labour leader, Crispin Beltran (73), follo...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from a reliable source that 11 persons were brutally tortured and subsequently charged with fabricated charges following...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you about the killing of Allan Ibasan and his uncle Dante Salgado allegedly by military agents after their arrest on 31 January ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from KARAPATAN (Alliance for the Advancement of Peoples Rights), a human rights organisation based in Manila, regarding ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) regrets to inform you that 19-year-old activist, Audie Lucero, was found dead in Barangay (village) Capitangan, Abucay, Bataan on 13 February 200...

This Friday, February 24, 2006 a state of emergency was declared in the Philippines. Through Proclamation No. 1017 the president has banned all public rallies and greatly restricted constitutional rig...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you that a peasant leader of the Kapunungan sa mga Mag-uuma sa Surigao Sur (KAMASS) (Organization of Peasants in Surigao Sur) ha...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you that three human rights activists in Baguio City, Luzon are facing serious threats on their lives.  They are Windel Bolinge...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) regrets to inform you that another human rights activist, Mateo Morales, has been killed. Morales was killed in his house in San Luis, Agusan del...

[Re: UP-158-2005: PHILIPPINES: Two more activists killed, one of whom suffered twenty-two gunshot wounds; UP-014-2006: PHILIPPINES: Office of the Ombudsman for the Military and Other Law Enforcement O...