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On a rainy night, 39-year-old health worker and human rights defender Zara Alvarez in Bacolod City was shot and killed. A few days before her fatal shooting, 71-year-old Randall Echanis was stabbed to death by men who, according to witnesses, had been surveilling him for a month. State security forces are said to be responsible…

Benedictine nuns express their opposition to the anti-terror bill. (Photo downloaded from Facebook) “Worrisome are the expanded and vague definitions of a “terrorist;” the powers given to the Anti-Terror Council to designate a group as a “terrorist group;” the weakening of the protection of one’s privacy and the safeguards against arrests and detention without warrants.”…