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Members of people’s organizations stage a protest in front of Comelec a day after the elections. (Photo by Kenneth Guda/ Pinoy Weekly) By VINZ SIMON* Bulatlat.com A treachery of the grandest order now unfolds as the election precincts closed yesterday – the Comelec’s transparency server has repeatedly held up and a dubious pattern has emerged…
By: Gabriel Pabico Lalu – Reporter /INQUIRER.net /November 19, 2021 MANILA, Philippines — The death of a 67-year-old political prisoner, who succumbed to stomach cancer, shows the alleged double standards of the country’s justice system, rights group Karapatan claimed on Friday. According to Karapatan’s secretary general Cristina Palabay, the death of Antonio Molina, who was…
By: Ruel S. De Vera, Philippine Daily Inquirer / October 25, 2020 What exactly does it mean to be “kenkoy?” “Kenkoy usually refers to someone who is boisterously hilarious, funny or amusing,” said Dr. Jose Wendell Capili of the University of the Philippines Diliman, a Pinoy pop culture researcher. The term entered everyday lingo thanks…
Nov 1, 2021, Dwight de Leon MANILA, Philippines The newly signed Comelec contract solidifies F2 Logistics’ status as the second biggest winner of 2022 poll-related projects, right after Smartmatic, which has secured over P2 billion worth of deals so far The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has inked a P535.999-million contract with F2 Logistics, a company…
On Duterte’s 3rd State of the Nation Address (SONA), political prisoners (PPs) from various jails across the country joined their voices to call for justice and demand accountability for the crimes and rights violations perpetrated by the Duterte regime. As of June 2018, Karapatan documented 509 political prisoners in the country. Of this number, 179…
“Karapatan condemns the worsening spate of attacks against activists and rights defenders, perpetrated by the Duterte regime and its security forces. Just this week, nine activists were illegally arrested in separate incidents in Laguna and Nueva Ecija, while two others were also declared missing. The spike in attacks are a compounded result of the government’s…