
Activists are under attack through trumped-up charges that are meant to land them in jail. Last December 2020, the PNP in Tagum, Davao del Norte filed a trumped-up case of murder against 11 people from different parts of the Philippines, for a killing that happened in March 22, 2018. Bayan’s Lutgardo “Boyette” Jurcales, Jr, like…
BAYAN joins the call of activist mass organizations, human rights defenders and Indigenous Peoples advocates to defend Windel Bolinget amidst series of attacks and the trumped-up murder case against him. Attacks of this sort being inflicted on activist leaders like Windel, who is the Cordillera People’s Alliance (CPA) Chair and the KATRIBU convener, is not…