Karapatan today scored the recently reported sale of $200,000 British surveillance equipment to the Philippine government, in the light of the listing of more than 600 persons, human rights defenders and critics of the Duterte government in the proscription petition filed by the Department of Justice (DOJ) at a regional court in Manila on February…
Feb 14, 2021, Reuters YANGON, Myanmar (UPDATED) More than 384 people have been detained since the coup, says a monitoring group, in a wave of mostly nightly arrests Hundreds of thousands of protesters took to the streets in Myanmar for a 9th day of anti-coup demonstrations on Sunday, February 14, as the new army rulers…
Mar 11, 2023 Lance Spencer Yu ‘Ang SMNI at red-tagging ang dapat i-phaseout, hindi jeepney,’ says transport group Piston MANILA, Philippines – Piston strongly condemned Sonshine Media Network International (SMNI) over red-tagging comments by its presenters, who said leaders of transport and teachers’ groups that supported the recent jeepney strike should be labeled as terrorists…
Actress Angel Locsin encourages her fellow artists to speak up about the denial of ABS-CBN’s franchise. (Photo by Carlo Manalansan/Bulatlat) PHOTOS BY CARLO MANALANSAN MANILA–Thousands of employees, advocates and supporters joined the motorcade and caravan condemning the shutdown of ABS-CBN and the impending effectivity of Anti-Terror Law, July 18. Vehicles adorned with the network’s colors…
“The Philippine military’s design for the communities in Lianga, Surigao del Sur is not just one of a quick execution of individuals, similar to the work of their paramilitary minions in September 2015. This is systemic, brutal and cruel persecution of an entire community in defense of their ancestral land by denying them security, food,…
That former TV broadcaster who’s running for senator under Sara Duterte’s Hugpong ng Pagbabago party isn’t alone in denying that the Duterte regime is a threat to press freedom. There are other former and still practicing broadcast, print and online media people who have never quite understood that the most fundamental values in journalism are…