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Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a 30-year-old woman named Ms. Hidayat was allegedly killed by her husband, Mr. Momin Ali Mahar in Dal village, Lak...

Dear Friends The Asian Human Rights Commission has received information from the Task Force Detainees of the Philippines (TFDP) that the torture victim Omar Ramalan filed five criminal charges against...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is forwarding information from the Task Force Detainees of the Philippines (TFDP) on the illegal arrest and torture of Hadji Omar Ramalan, 50 and...

Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission is forwarding information from the Task Force Detainees of the Philippines (TFDP) on killing of a civilian and serious injury of another in Barangay Gawa...

Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission is forwarding information from the Task Force Detainees of the Philippines (TFDP) on killings of two teenage boys by army soldiers. Even though there was...

Dear Friends We are forwarding updated information from the Task Force Detainees of the Philippines (TFDP) regarding the killing of the Blancos, a Mangyan family, by elements of the 16th Infantry Bata...

Dear Friends BACKGROUND INFORMATION: On 23 June 2003 more than 300 security guards at the Nestle plant in Cabuyao, Laguna, the Philippines, together with 200 personnel from the Philippine National Pol...

Dear Friends Below is an urgent appeal we are forwarding from Task Force Detainees of the Philippines (TFDP). 115 indigenous people’s families have been rendered homeless after the Provincial Sh...

SITUATION: On 21 April 2003 five Human Rights activists were abducted and two of them tortured and killed in Naujan Town, Oriental Mindoro province, Southern Tagalog. The bodies of Eden Marcellana, S...

PHILIPPINES: Harassment, illegal arrest and detention conspired with landlord and the police ———————————————&#...

Dear Friends, The following is a forwarded appeal from Task Force Detainees of the Philippines (TFDF) regarding a shooting incident in the city of Panabo on Mindanao Island in the Philippines on Jan. ...

TORTURE AND CYANIDE: A RESPONSE TO “IS TORTURE EVER JUSTIFIED” — Basil Fernando, AHRC Note: The following letter, dated 14 January 2003, was written to the Economist magazine in repl...

Dear Friends, The following is a forwarded appeal from Task Force Detainees of the Philippines (TFDP) regarding cases of physical assault and fire shoot to civilians by the army. According to TFDP, th...

Dear Friends,  Regarding our pervious forwarded appeal about the death penalty in the Philippines, including the case of Mr. Rolando Pagdayawon, a former police officer, we are sending you the follow...

Dear Friends, The following is a forwarded appeal from Task Force Detainees of the Philippines (TFDP) regarding a case of harassment of a human rights activist. According to the following urgent appea...

PHILIPPINES: Land rights; Loss of land and deprivation of livelihood ——————————————————̵...

Dear Friends,  We have been informed that the President of the Philippines, Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has decided to reprieve for 90 days the execution of Mr. Rolando Pagdayawon, who was previously sch...

On Aug. 15, 2002, the members of the New People's Army (NPA) ambushed a police team in Brgy. Pansoy, Sogod, Cebu, Philippines, injuring two policemen and one civilian. Immediately members of the 78th ...

Dear Friends, Following is the forwarded appeal from Amnesty International (AI) that needs your urgent action regarding the death penalty in the Philippines. The death penalty is denial of the most fu...

Dear Friends, The most basic of all human rights is the right to life. Nobody can be denied this right by their own government. A government that applies the death penalty – such as the Philippi...