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Hacienda Luisita farmers injured, nabbed, terrorized by state forces in latest Aquino-Cojuangco rampage

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Hacienda Luisita farmers injured, nabbed, terrorized by state forces in latest Aquino-Cojuangco rampage

FACT SHEET: Incidents in Barangay Cutcut, Hacienda Luisita

I. Assault, Physical Injuries

March 24, 2014

1. Victim:  RUDY CORPUZ, 59, AMBALA leader
Alleged perpetrator: FAUSTINO CORPUZ (not related), TADECO hired personnel

March 28, 2014

2. Victim(s): JERRY MESA, 45, and other farmers / members of AMBALA
Alleged perpetrators: TADECO security personnel led by MAURO DELA CRUZ, JOVITO SUELEN nad a certain PALOMAR

II. Assault, Physical Injuries with Arbitrary Arrest and Detention

Victims: MARCELINO LUGAY, PIA HERNANDEZ, FERNAN CORPUZ, farmers and AMBALA members
Alleged perpertrators:  TADECO personnel, PNP-SWAT Tarlac

III. Destruction of Property / Looting

Dismantling of farmhut serving as organization headquarters, etc.

Victims: AMBALA Barangay Cutcut chapter and individual members
Alleged perpetrators: TADECO security men with PNP-SWAT Tarlac and military personnel from 3rd Mechanized Battalion as accomplices

IV. Warantless Raids, Harassment

Victims: Residents of Barangay Cutcut
Alleged perpetrators: PNP-SWAT Tarlac / 3rd Mech Bn personnel

Morning of March 24, 2014, about a hundred members of the Alyansa ng mga Manggagawang-Bukid sa Asyenda Luisita (AMBALA) representing different barangays (villages), trooped to the provincial office (PARO) of the  Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) to follow up on their pending urgent petition for the issuance of a Cease and Desist Order (CDO) against the violent eviction of farmers by Cojuangco-Aquino firm Tarlac Development Corporation (TADECO).

AMBALA filed the petition before the DAR Region III Office in Pampanga on December 26, 2013, the only working day after TADECO ordered the bulldozing of crops, mauling and illegal arrest of farmers within a 258-hectare TADECO-claimed area in Barangay Balete during the Christmas season. The area is now secured by concrete fences, barbed wires, private security personnel led by the Great Star agency and a company headquarters of the 3rd Mechanized Battalion of the Philippine Army.

Before the violent attacks, TADECO also filed unlawful detainer (ejectment) charges against 81 farmers in Barangay Cutcut and 26 farmers in Barangay Balete. These farmer-families are long-time residents and farmworkers of Hacienda Luisita, some tilling the land even before the Cojuangco-Aquinos took over the sugar plantation in 1957.

Farmers have been cultivating hundreds of hectares of land for foodcrops since 2005 via the bungkalan (tillage) campaign of AMBALA. The ejectment charges against the farmers have been recently DISMISSED by local courts.
Instead of acting on the CDO petition, local DAR officials enjoined residents of Barangays Cutcut and Balete to “apply as agrarian reform beneficiaries” as the DAR vowed to distribute some 360 hectares of the contested property to bonafide residents and tillers. The DAR issued a Notice of Land Reform Coverage (NOC) for the TADECO areas, published by the Philippine Star on December 17, 2013.

AMBALA chose to protest DAR’s inaction on the first day of its application process for Cutcut residents on March 24. Balete residents, meanwhile, were advised to start applying for lot allocations on April 1.

During the March 24 picket-dialogue, PARO Chief Ileona Pangilinan assured AMBALA Chairperson Florida “Pong” Sibayan that the DAR will look after the interests of so-called “farmworker-beneficiaries (FWBs)” but said that her office cannot do anything to stop the aggressive steps of TADECO against Hacienda Luisita farmers.

Pangilinan claimed that she was not aware that Sibayan was just recently released from police custody. Sibayan is respondent to a number of “harrasment suits” directly filed by TADECO and the local police in Tarlac, meant to silence farmers’ dissent in Hacienda Luisita. Dozens of other farmers and their supporters also face harassment suits.
A few hours after the dialogue, violence erupted in Barangay Cutcut. Local AMBALA leader Rudy Corpuz, 59, sustained six stitches due to head injuries after an assault by a certain Faustino Corpuz (not related to Rudy), one of the men hired by TADECO to fence the agricultural lots in Cutcut. AMBALA members tried to reason with the contract workers that the area is subject to land reform coverage and must not be fenced by the Cojuangco-Aquino family. Thugs hired by TADECO turned violent instead and attacked AMBALA leaders.

Two days after on March 26, residents noticed the build-up of TADECO security personnel, along with the unusual deployment of police forces in Barangay Cutcut. Fifteen policemen in two official vehicles and an 8-man Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) team armed with high-powered rifles were deployed to assist TADECO guards in fencing agricultural lands. Ten soldiers from the 3rd Mechanized Battalion were also reported spotted.

On March 27, police officers identified as S/INSP. GALICIA and SPO3 GARCIA, bluntly told AMBALA leaders to let TADECO personnel “peacefully do their job” of fencing off agricultural land from farmers. Farmers who trooped to the scene told the police that there is a standing agreement to maintain “status quo” forged before local village officials last January, between TADECO security and Cutcut farmers represented by AMBALA. Other police personnel on the scene were identified as SPO3 BALOT, SPO1 ABELLA & PO2 BERNARDO.

On March 28, about 2 pm, around 20 TADECO security personnel led by MAURO DELA CRUZ, JOVITO SUELEN and a certain PALOMAR attacked farmers with hammers and shovels.  Police and soldiers were at the place of incident while the farmers were being beaten up.

Farmer Jerry Mesa, 45, who was hit by a hammer on his head, was rushed to the Tarlac Provincial Hospital for treatment. Other farmers suffered various injuries.

Instead of  intervening to stop TADECO men who instigated the attack, police started arbitrarily arresting farmers. Those nabbed by police were identified as Marcelino Lugay, Pia Hernandez, and Fernan Corpuz. Lugay and Hernandez were brought to the Philippine National Police (PNP) headquarters in Tarlac City, while Corpuz, brother of Rudy, was also rushed to the Tarlac Provincial Hospital due to heart problems. Corpuz is currently confined at the hospital with police escorts.

TADECO security guards then proceeded to dismantle AMBALA’s “kubol” or farmhut serving as local headquarters in Barangay Cutcut. Farmers have yet to report the extent of destruction and looting of the organization’s belongings, tools, and crops. Police and soldiers served as “security” while TADECO guards demolished AMBALA’s farmhut.

Police and soldiers terrorized the entire community as they roamed around Barangay Cutcut hunting down AMBALA leaders. They conducted warantless raids and randomly confiscated cellular phones of residents.

TADECO personnel now continue to set up fences to bar farmers from tending to their crops. AMBALA asserts that around a thousand hectares of prime lands including contested TADECO property were cunningly excluded by the DAR and the Cojuangco-Aquinos from land distribution, but is covered by the 2012 decision of the Supreme Court to distribute all agricultural land in Hacienda Luisita to farmworkers.

Photos: injuries of AMBALA leader Rudy Pineda
Tarlac police / SWAT deployed in Hacienda Luisita

Reference:
Renato Mendoza
AMBALA Barangay Cutcut
+63912-330-9329

For more photos and reference links, please visit http://luisitawatch.wordpress.com

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Killings, illegal arrests and detentions: BS Aquino’s kind of peace

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Killings, illegal arrests and detentions: BS Aquino’s kind of peace

http://www.karapatan.org/Killings%2C+illegal+arrest+and+detention%3A+BS+Aquino%E2%80%99s+kind+of+peace

January 03, 2014—MONTERONA, Marcelo, 41, Farmer, Indug Kautawan, Maco, Compostela Valley
January 12, 2014—TOLENTINO, Antonio, 62, Farmer, Aniban, Hacienda Dolores, Porac, Pampanga
January 30, 2014—ORBINA, Henry, Worker, Cabadian, Sorsogon
January 31, 2014—AMBONGAN, Datu Rolando, 39, Higaonon tribe, Katribu Partylist member, Buenavista, Agusan del Norte

February 05, 2014—LAURON, Julieto, 41, Farmer, Kasama – Bukidnon, Valencia, Bukidnon
February 06, 2014—RAYTERAN, Rosaldo, Driver, Albay People’s Org, Libon, Albay
February 06, 2014—RAYTERAN, Rasty, 18, Youth, Libon, Albay
February 18, 2014—ARCHIVAL, Noel, 53, Lawyer, Dalaguette, Cebu
February 18, 2014—MIÑOZA, Candido, 47, Archival’s aide, Dalaguette, Cebu
February 18, 2014—JAYME, Alejandro, 45, Archival’s driver, Dalaguette, Cebu

March 03, 2014—LIGIW, Fermin, 29, Binongan-Tinguian tribe, Anakbayan/Kastan (CPA provincial chapter), Baay-Licuan, Abra
March 03, 2014—LIGIW, Eddie, 45, Binongan-Tinguian tribe, Kastan, Baay-Licuan, Abra
March 03, 2014—LIGIW, Licuben, 77, Binongan-Tinguian tribe, Kastan, Baay-Licuan, Abra
March 15, 2014—CAPALLA, Romeo, 65, entrepreneur, PFTC, SELDA, Oton, Iloilo
March 22, 2014—LUBIANO, Julio, 31, Small-scale miner, Caramoan, Camarines Sur
March 22, 2014—LUBIANO, Rene, 28, Small-scale miner, Caramoan, Camarines Sur
March 22, 2014—VIRTUS, Salem, 24, Small-scale miner, Caramoan, Camarines Sur
March 22, 2014—BRONDIA, Jesse, 35, Small-scale miner, Caramoan, Camarines Sur
March 25, 2014—BUGATTI, William, 43, CHRA, CPA, BM provincial coordinator, Kiangan, Ifugao

“These are names of 19 people killed as a result of the BS Aquino government’s killing frenzy in the first 13 weeks of 2014. This is the kind of peace the Aquino government pursues desperately to silence the vocal critics of his anti-people governance,” said Karapatan secretary general Cristina Palabay.

Palabay said, for the same period, Karapatan also documented 43 victims of illegal arrests and detention based on fabricated criminal charges, “But BS Aquino and his cohorts never ever acknowledged these human rights violations committed by the armed forces. Instead, the Aquino government continues to brag about and propagate lies that peace means people keeping mum and submitting to its policies and programs that spell death to the majority of the poor Filipinos.”

 “The peace that BS Aquino knows only fires up wars, as people clamour for concrete steps to address poverty and underdevelopment. Aquino’s duplicity on the issue of peace is further emphasized. On the one hand, he boasts of forging peace with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), while military offensives continue in Mindanao, victimizing thousands of civilians.

On the other hand, he lies on his administration’s interest on the peace talks with the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP), while his government illegally arrests peace consultants, right defenders and individuals, kills those whom he perceives as his government’s enemies,” said Palabay.

Karapatan earlier called on BS Aquino to step down from office following the spate of killings committed by the armed forces of the BS Aquino government.

The latest victim of extrajudicial killing is William Bugatti, a human rights worker and regional council member of the Cordillera Human Rights Alliance-KARAPATAN. He also represented the Ifugao Peasant Movement in the regional council of the Cordillera Peoples Alliance. He was also provincial coordinator of Bayan Muna partylist.

Bugatti, from the Tuwali tribe, succumbed to three gun shots that pierced his heart on the evening of March 25 at Bolog, Kiangan, Ifugao. Bugatti was among the 28 people whose names appeared in a poster-target list by the 5th Infantry Division and the 86th Infantry Battalion Target List in Tinoc, Ifugao tagged as brains, members and supporters of the New People’s Army.

Reference:
Cristina “Tinay” Palabay
Secretary General
+63917-3162831

Angge Santos
Media Liaison
+63918-9790580

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2nd Flr. Erythrina Building
#1 Maaralin corner Matatag Streets
Central District, Diliman
Quezon City, PHILIPPINES 1101
Telefax: (+63 2) 4354146
Web: http://www.karapatan.org

KARAPATAN is an alliance of human rights organizations and programs, human rights desks and committees of people’s organizations, and individual advocates committed to the defense and promotion of people’s rights and civil liberties.  It monitors and documents cases of human rights violations, assists and defends victims and conducts education, training and campaign.

Army accused of seizing boy, tagging him a rebel

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Army accused of seizing boy, tagging him a rebel

Source: http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/589691/army-accused-of-seizing-boy-tagging-him-a-rebel#ixzz2xX3pQKQY

DAVAO CITY, Philippines — A nongovernment organization has accused the military of abducting a 14-year old boy in Magpet, North Cotabato, and later presenting him as a child combatant of the New People’s Army (NPA).

The Davao City-based Children’s Rehabilitation Center (CRC) Southern Mindanao said the boy was taken into military custody while wandering in a forested area of Barangay (village) Bantak in Magpet on March 24.

The boy was later presented by the 57th Infantry Battalion  as an NPA combatant, who had surrendered to authorities in Kidapawan City, also in North Cotabato.

“Military officials said that [the boy] has been active for two years in the communist movement,” Rius Valle, CRC advocacy officer, said.

But Valle said what the military did was “blatant abduction and branding.”

Lt. Col. Nilo Vinluan, 57th Infantry Battalion commander, said the military has proof that Balong was a child rebel.

“He can even memorize and sing the NPA song,” Vinluan said by text message.

Valle said the boy was a graduating student of Bangkal Elementary School, also in Magpet.

Valle said the CRC could not simply believe the military line that the boy was a child soldier because he has been in school for the past two years.

Valle said the boy’s adviser in his Grade 6 class has complete class records of the boy.

But Vinluan said while it might be true that the boy has been attending classes, it does not weaken the military proof that the boy was a child rebel.

He said the boy was well versed about the NPA, including the NPA unit to which the boy supposedly belongs. The boy, said Vinluan, “can even identify the commanders and vice commanders of the group.”

CRC said another puzzle in the boy’s case was the military’s failure to present him to his family as soon as he was taken into custody.

“This is not just a branding case but a case of abduction,” Valle said.

The boy is in the custody of the Magpet Social Welfare and Development Office (CSWDO) but CRC said it does not erase the fact that he was abducted by the military. Allan Nawal and Williamor Magbanua, Inquirer Mindanao

Also please visit: http://www.childrehabcenter.org/

With escalation of political killings, Karapatan demands BS Aquino to step down

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With escalation of political killings, Karapatan demands BS Aquino to step down

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“Karapatan strongly demands that Pres. Noynoy Aquino step down from office for his administration’s accountability for the 169 victims of extra-judicial killings, from July 2010 to December 2013, and for the 19 killed for this year alone, including the killing of our fellow human rights worker William Bugatti of Cordillera Human Rights Alliance (CHRA) in Ifugao and the massacre of four miners in Caramoan, Camarines Sur,” said Cristina Palabay, national secretary general of Karapatan.

William Bugatti of CHRA was killed at 7:00pm last night, 25 March, along the Ifugao Highway in Bolog, Kiangan, Ifugao. Bugatti is among those included in the target list of the 86th Infantry Battalion of the 5th Infantry Division of the Philippine Army in Tinoc, Ifugao. He was tagged as “utak ng NPA” (New People’s Army) in the said list, along with CHRA secretary general Jude Baggo.

Small-scale miners Julio Labiano, Rene Labiano, Salem Virtus, and Jessie Brondia were reportedly massacred by Bantay Kalikasan Task Force of the Caramoan, Camarines Sur local government on 22 March 2014.

“The message is clear. All those who are critical of the Aquino administration are considered ‘enemies of the state’. Activists, human rights workers and civilians are being killed like flies by this government.  The situation is akin to the killing spree of Gloria Macapagal Arroyo’s state forces in 2006 to create a chilling effect among the Filipino people, amid widspread discontent against the administration,” Palabay said.

Meanwhile, the human rights community in and out of the country are shocked by the massacre of the Ligiw family in Abra, and the killing of a former political prisoner Romeo Capalla. Messages of condemnation came in from various international human rights organizations calling for justice to the victims of extrajudicial killings.

“Mr. President, we are waiting to hear you publicly declaring that these killings must stop now,” International Coalition on Human Rights in the Philippines (ICHRP)-Toronto, Canada said in its open letter to Pres. Noynoy Aquino.

“Mr. President, we are deeply troubled by the deafening silence of your administration in the face of the brutal violence committed by state agents against citizens of your country. Your government’s commitment to human rights has lost credibility,” ICHRP Canada Chapter said.

“We call on the Philippine government to immediately order an independent, impartial and competent investigation into the killing of Freddie, Edgar and Licuben Ligiw and pull-out the 41st Infantry Battalion of the Philippine Army, and all military troops from Abra to ensure that the investigation is independent and impartial,” ICHRP Canada continued.

Rev. Barry Naylor, Honorary President of the Campaign for Human Rights in the Philippines (UK) and Chairperson of the Global Council of the International Coalition for Human Rights in the Philippines called on President Aquino to end the policy of automatically labelling, and targeting, of human rights defenders as “members of front organizations of the CPP” (Communisty Party of the Philippines) and “enemies of the state.”

“With all the demands for justice and peace coming from different countries, BS Aquino cannot turn a blind eye on the escalating number of killings. We will defy the increasing repression of the Aquino administration, and we will never be cowed,” Palabay ended.

Reference:
Cristina “Tinay” Palabay
Secretary General
+63917-3162831

Angge Santos
Media Liaison
+63918-9790580

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PUBLIC INFORMATION DESK
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Alliance for the Advancement of People’s Rights
2nd Flr. Erythrina Building
#1 Maaralin corner Matatag Streets
Central District, Diliman
Quezon City, PHILIPPINES 1101
Telefax: (+63 2) 4354146
Web: http://www.karapatan.org

KARAPATAN is an alliance of human rights organizations and programs, human rights desks and committees of people’s organizations, and individual advocates committed to the defense and promotion of people’s rights and civil liberties.  It monitors and documents cases of human rights violations, assists and defends victims and conducts education, training and campaign.

Why the arrest of the Tiamzons, et al, is illegal and unjustified

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Why the arrest of the Tiamzons, et al, is illegal and unjustified

By the legal defense team of the PILC and NUPL

  1. The Tiamzon spouses are covered by the Joint Agreement on Safety and Immunity Guarantees (JASIG) arising from the peace negotiations and thus must not be arrested by the Government of the Philippines (GPH).
  2. Benito and Wilma Austria Tiamzon are holders of documents of identification (more popularly known as “safe conduct passes”) numbers ND978227 and ND978226, respectively, as consultants of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP). Both have also been issued Letters of Acknowledgement by two Chairmen of the GPH Negotiating Panel, Howard Dee in 1996 and Silvestre H. Bello III in 2001.
  3. Wilma Austria Tiamzon is publicly known by her real name to be involved in the GPH-NDFP peace negotiations since the 1990s, and must be afforded recognition and protection as such. The use of assumed names by accredited or protected persons, such as “Crising Banaag” by Benito Tiamzon, is justified by:

    3.1. Accepted practice in peace negotiations with underground organizations, and as agreed upon by the Parties.
    3.2. Additional implementing rules pertinent to the JASIG signed by both Parties explicitly allowing such use.
    3.3. Historical lessons during the 1986 peace negotiations when a number of participants from the NDFP were exposed, arrested, and even killed.
    3.4. Security and privacy considerations, to encourage those who want to participate in the negotiations, and as assurance against present or future reprisals.

  4. The status of the Tiamzon spouses as consultants of the NDFP is not questionable. There is no need for further or additional verification/validation of their identities.

    4.1. They are in possession of and presented documents of identification and letters of acknowledgement. Further verification is only obligatory when there are no other means of establishing identity. (JASIG Implementing Rules)
    4.2. Out of 427 political prisoners in the Philippines, only 14 are being claimed by the NDFP as consultants.

  5. Arresting the Tiamzon spouses constitutes bad faith on the part of the GPH in complying with its obligations under binding bilateral agreements.

    5.1. JASIG was crafted precisely to facilitate the peace negotiations, to create a favorable atmosphere conducive to free discussion and free movement during the peace negotiation, and avert incidents that may jeopardize the peace negotiations. It actually benefits the panelists, consultants, staff and security of both Parties to safety and immunity guarantees.
    5.2. Under the principle in international law of “pacta sunt servanda” (Latin for promises must be kept), agreements are binding between the Parties and must be kept and performed in good faith.
    5.3. A Party like the GPH cannot use its domestic law as a justification or excuse for the non-performance/compliance with its obligations under a binding international agreement like JASIG.

  6. Protection of the Tiamzon spouses under the JASIG subsists.

    6.1. JASIG can only be terminated by written notice of either Party to the other and will only be effective 30 days upon receipt (JASIG Part III. No. 5). No written notice has been sent or received by the NDFP for the termination of the negotiations by GPH under the Aquino administration.
    6.2. There is no provision in the JASIG allowing for suspension or “inoperatibility” of its protections as this will render nugatory its objectives and practical value.
    6.3. The whole peace process or negotiations are huge and elaborate and do not only involve scheduled formal talks across the negotiating table. It equally involves continuing phases such as consultation, research, study, education, information, advocacy, backchanneling, exploratory meetings, informal talks, and formal talks. Absence, suspensions or impasses in formal peace talks do not mean the whole peace negotiations/process are automatically absent, suspended or terminated.

  7. The Tiamzon spouses are engaged in activities directly related to their role as consultants in the peace negotiations.

    7.1. The Tiamzons were conducting intensive consultations with peasants and basic sectors in the Visayas at the time of their arrest particularly with respect to socio-economic issues and the effects of supertyphoon Yolanda.
    7.2. Even the GPH alleges them as leaders of the Communist Party of the Philippines – New Peoples’ Army. It stands to reason and common sense that they should be monitoring implementation of agreements on the field, be consulted by and conduct consultations with members of the NDFP and pertinent individuals and groups, in such a significant work as the peace negotiations.

  8. Four days after their arrest have passed yet still no valid warrants have been presented against the seven detained.

    8.1. The detained and their counsels have not received, nor have been furnished previous valid warrants against any of them. Even present attempts to procure these are being blocked by the military. It is not implausible that shotgun warrants would eventually surface as the Tiamzon spouses are mechanically made default respondents or “usual suspects” in incidents allegedly involving the New People’s Army.

  9. The belated inquest proceedings for the trumped-up charges of illegal possession of firearms and explosives are highly irregular and cannot be given legal credence or effect.

    9.1. It was conducted 44 hours after the arrest, way beyond the GPH maximum period of 36 hours of legal detention without charges being filed; thus the detention is arbitrary and illegal.
    9.2. It was conducted not at the place of the alleged crimes in Cebu, but some 355 miles away, in Quezon City.
    9.3. Evidence has been planted. It is incumbent now upon the GPH prove the integrity and admissibility in court of the firearms and explosives allegedly taken from the detainees. The presumption of innocence subsists and the burden of proof and evidence does not shift to them.
    9.4. New, false, and fabricated charges were filed as an afterthought to cover previous fatal infirmities in supposed warrants almost two days after the incident.
    9.5. Police CIDG officers did not inform counsels for detained about the inquest despite presenting themselves the day before. Counsels were surprised with and only informed about the inquest for the new and fabricated charges only three hours prior by members of media.

  10. The practice of charging common criminal offenses, instead of political crimes, against consultants of the NDFP (and other political prisoners) cannot legalize the arrest and detention of the Tiamzons.

    10.1. Filing criminal charges , false, anomalous and fabricated at that, are precisely calculated to undermine and remove the very protection of the JASIG; conversely, the JASIG was intended to shield participants of the peace process from harassment and other acts that hinder their work, like the filing of such charges.
    10.2. These new false charges are designed to ensure the detention of the Tiamzons when other possible old charges against them wither in the face of intense scrutiny.
    10.3. These trumped up charges violate the political offense doctrine, which mandates that all crimes in furtherance of political beliefs must be subsumed under one political crime of rebellion. Any person investigated, charged, arrested, prosecuted or convicted in violation of this judicial doctrine must be released as mandated by the Comprehensive Agreement on Respect for Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law (CARHRIHL), which the GPH co-signed with the NDFP way back 1998.

References:
Atty. Rachel F. Pastores
Managing Counsel
Public Interest Law Center (PILC)
+639279219539

Atty. Edre U. Olalia
Secretary General
National Union of Peoples’ Lawyers (NUPL)
+639175113373

National Secretariat
National Union of Peoples’ Lawyers (NUPL)
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Telefax no.920-6660
Email addresses: nupl2007@gmail.com and nuplphilippines@yahoo.com
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and facebook @https://www.facebook.com/nuplphilippines
Visit the NUPL website at http://www.nupl.net/

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