“Know your rights,” a PNP app.
‘Height of hypocrisy’: Rights groups, netizens slam PNP rights app
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Lawyers, urban poor ask QC court to stop compulsory drug testing
By BULATLAT MANILA – Human rights lawyers and urban poor residents of Quezon City has asked the courts to order a halt to the so-called “voluntary” drug testing being conducted by the Philippine National Police in communities in the city. The National Union of People’s Lawyers (NUPL) led 30 Quezon city residents who filed a…
Urban poor group calls for end to Duterte’s war on drugs
“There had to be a scandal about the killing of a Korean to show that there is something wrong with Oplan Tokhang…If this had not happened, the PNP will carry on killing poor Filipinos already hard put in finding justice.”
Lawless and low
Almost always inaccurate are generalizations about any group, whether a race, a social class, an ethnic community, a profession — or, for that matter, a government agency and its personnel. There’s always someone who’s an exception to a rule widely presumed to be true. Stereotyping can also be dangerous, and often is. Not all Chinese…
Mythologizing the Police
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld In arguing that President Benigno S. C. Aquino III could not have broken the “chain of command” because the Philippine National Police (PNP) is a civilian agency, Justice Secretary Leila de Lima assumed that no such system exists outside the military bureaucracy. De Lima was taking exception…
The National Police’s grammar of deception
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld If eight out of 145 crimes have been solved, and in most cases no thanks to you, should you be crowing about it? Eight out of 145 is about 3% of the total cases of journalists and media workers killed in this country, but the Philippine National…
9 nabbed, scores wounded in anti-SONA protest
“This simply reeks of fascism to gag legitimate dissent that must be respected by any government that honestly wants to be called even remotely democratic, much less humane or even civilized.” – Edre Olalia, National Union of Peoples’ Lawyers
Statistics on various crimes against women alarming – CWR
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
“Sins against Filipino women are being committed on a daily basis.”
Panabo Police Arrested, Mauled Civilians
Posted By Bulatlat.com PANABO City, Davao del Norte — Bien Sumuroy, spokesman of Amoran Saripada Command of the New People’s Army in Southern Mindanao, said the “the criminal Panabo City police” arrested and severely mauled Toto Ancahas and Gerald Robles last week, and presented them to the media as petty criminals-turned-members of the New People’s…
Educating Torture ‘Experts’ is Pointless
A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission The widely publicised video of a police torture has drawn mixed reactions and opinions from the public, including lawmakers, lawyers and human rights groups, who have all joined in the chorus condemning such a barbaric and cruel act. Most of them share the opinion that ‘lack of…
Church Worker Missing After Being Arrested By Police and Turned Over to Military
Dennis Rodinas, a lay worker of the United Church of Christ in the Philippines, was subjected to “custodial debriefing” at a military camp in Misamis Occidental and has not been heard from. His family is concerned that he may end up the latest victim of human-rights atrocities in the Philippines.