Franco Romeroso. (Photo courtesy of Public Interest Law Center) “He had been awaiting his next hearing in June 2019 for possible dismissal of the rest, for failure to prosecute.” By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL Bulatlat.com MANILA – Another political prisoner has succumbed to illness. Franco “Pangkoy” Romeroso, 38, passed away on Good Friday, April 19….
“If the government doesn’t want us to give services to victims of human rights violations, that is no justification to open us to attacks.” Read also: ‘Duterte acting treasonous on his vetted matrix from a foreign intelligence’ — Neri Colmenares BY MARYA SALAMAT Bulatlat.com MANILA — The matrix of personalities behind a purported “oust Duterte”…
Picture grabbed from The Manila Times. “Why is the president putting much more store into this foreign intelligence body than that of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and the Philippine National Police (PNP) which denied there was such an Oust Duterte plot?” By MARYA SALAMAT Bulatlat.com MANILA – Among the cascade of violations…
IT advocacy group Computer Professionals Union hit the Commission on Elections (COMELEC) for downplaying irregularities during the first few days of overseas absentee voting (OAV).
A massive earthquake struck parts of Central Luzon and the National Capital region, the former emplaces Castillejos, Zambales as the epicenter, 6.1, and 5.7. Porac, a town in the neighboring province of Pampanga has been so far reported to have the most number of human casualties and damages. My family lives a few towns away…
By Visayas Today The secretary general of the Bagong Alyansang Makabayan-Negros received a death threat directed against him and other activist leaders just hours after Escalante City Councilor Bernardino “Toto” Patigas was murdered. Mike dela Concepcion said a series of text messages was sent to his phone from the number +639999019988 just before 8 p.m….
While the activity was going on, he said, state security forces “in full combat gear” arrived at the church, saying they were there to “observe” what was going on but later “asking for the names of the participants and wanting to take their photos.”
Human rights group Karapatan, of which NNAHRA is an affiliate, called Patigas “the 48th Karapatan worker killed in the course of his human rights advocacy.”