Hustisya! (Victims United for Justice)

05/12/2024

05/12/2024

01/12/2024

MAMAMAYANG PILIPINO VS PWERSA NG KASAMAAN, KADILIMAN

DAPAT PAREHONG PANAGUTIN sina Rodrigo Duterte at Ferdinand Marcos Jr. sa bawat buhay na kinitil, bawat biktima ng sapilitang pagkawala, bawat nabilanggo nang walang kasalanan, bawat pinaghinalaang adik o pusher na pinaslang. Dapat ding panagutin ang mga berdugong naging sunud-sunuran sa buktot na utos ng kanilang mga amo.

DAPAT PANAGUTIN ang imperyalismong US, na siyang nagdidisenyo at nagpopondo sa mga madugong pakanang ito. Sadyang sinusuhayan ng US ang mga rehimeng sunud-sunuran sa mga patakarang pabor sa mga imperyalista at sumusupil sa karapatan ng mamamayang lumaban at maghimagsik sa mga mapanupil na papet na ito.

HUWAG NATING IASA lamang sa eleksyon ang sagot sa inaasam nating katarungan at pagpapanagot. Mapa-Duterte man o mapa-Marcos ang manaig sa halalan, pareho silang may utang na dugo sa mamamayan. Sila at iba pang mga angkan ng bulok na pulitiko ang magwawagi sa bilangan. Mismong mga retiradong berdugong pulis at militar ay kumakasangkapan sa eleksyon para makapanatili sa poder at umiwas sa pananagutan. Iilan lamang sa mga makabayang kandidato ang nakakalusot sa halalang kontrolado ng mga makapangyarihan, at ang karamihan ay dinadaya, nire-redtag at hinaharas, kundi man pinapatay o sinasampahan ng gawa-gawang kaso.

SA DETERMINADO AT SAMA-SAMANG pagkilos natin mapananagot ang mga pasista at makakamit ang katarungan.

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Marcos, Duterte, walang pinag-iba!
Marcos singilin, Duterte panagutin!

29/11/2024

Free Frenchie Mae! Free Mariel!
Free our sisters, free all political prisoners!

In 2020, Frenchie and Mariel were arrested during military and police raids on their offices. They were charged with illegal possession of fi****ms and explosives, as well as terrorism financing related to funds raised for typhoon relief efforts

The raids involved aggressive tactics, including forced entries and intimidation. Testimonies during the trial revealed inconsistencies regarding the evidence presented. Following their arrest, Frenchie and Mariel have faced ongoing harassment, including online red-tagging.

Frenchie Mae C. Cumpio is a prominent broadcast journalist and the anchor of a radio program, She also serves as the executive director of Eastern Vista and is a member of various media and women’s organizations.

Mariel A. Domequil is a community organizer with the Rural Missionaries of the Philippines and a women’s rights activist involved with GABRIELA Youth - Metro Tacloban.

26/11/2024

SEE YOU TOMORROW, NOVEMBER 27!
Dismiss terror charges vs women human rights defenders!

27 November 2024
8:30 AM: Prayer gathering at Iglesia Filipina Independiente (IFI) National Cathedral, Taft Avenue, Manila
10:00 AM: Rally at Department of Justice, P. Faura, Manila

A prayer gathering followed by a protest action will be held on November 27, ahead of International Women Human Rights Defenders Day on November 29, to call to dismiss all terror law charges against women rights defenders who are imprisoned or slapped with charges of violations of the Anti-Terror Law and the Terrorism Financing Prevention and Suppression Law.

There are currently 156 women political prisoners, out of the total 757 political prisoners nationwide under the Marcos Jr. administration. Women rights defenders and activists are also charged with violations of anti-terror and terrorist financing laws, some of which have been dismissed.

International Women Human Rights Defenders’ Day is commemorated worldwide every November 29 to honor women and girls who are active in the defense of human rights in their respective communities.

25/11/2024

Please watch. LIVE:

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LIVE: Families of EJK victims and rights advocates launch 'Duterte panagutin' network in Quezon City.

The network aims to press for justice and accountability of Rodrigo Duterte for violations on human rights and International Humanitarian Law.

24/11/2024

Hustisya and the SELDA Samahan ng Ex-Detainees Laban sa Detensyon at Aresto joined yesterday’s commemoration of the 2009 Ampatuan massacre and demanded justice for all the victims.

The march to Mendiola was led by the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines and Altermidya.

Photos by Manila Collegian and Archers Network

22/11/2024

On November 27, we enjoin all human rights defenders in a solidarity action ahead of International Women Human Rights Defenders’ Day (November 29).

On this day, we salute all women who have tirelessly worked and contributed to the continuing struggle for women’s rights, human rights and freedoms.

In the Philippines and all over the world, the recent years are the most challenging for women human rights defenders. Attacks and threats including discriminatory acts and gender violence used to attempt to muzzle and silence the voices of women human rights defenders have grown more brazen and systematic. Upholding the rights of women and the people is easily branded as a crime or as an act of terrorism. Lives and liberty are being taken away from the many courageous women human rights defenders.

Trumped-up charges are used against women human rights defenders, as they are also subjected to physical, mental or psychological torture. Stemming from the whole scheme of the state that treats activists and advocates as “enemies of the state,” the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) has incessantly targeted women human rights defenders in their red-tagging and intimidation campaign, making it as a prelude to justify all forms of violations against their rights and the very communities they serve.

Under the Marcos Jr. government, there is an alarming escalation of the weaponization of the Anti-Terrorism Law (ATL) and the Terrorist Financing Prevention and Suppression Act (TFPSA), where trumped up charges against at least 112 activists and human rights defenders are facing charges under these laws. More than 20 of them are women human rights defenders.

State forces continue to target women human rights defenders in many regions and communities in the country. 147 women political prisoners continue to languish in jails, out of the 755 total number of political prisoners in different detention centers nationwide.

Despite the many hurdles and challenges, and amidst a dangerous and monstrous regime that target women and the people, many women human rights defenders nevertheless persist in their work in the communities.

Fighting for our rights against the growing injustice and crisis is but a necessity these times. It becomes imperative, amidst a dangerous context for women human rights defenders and our people.

We call on our fellow women human rights defenders not to let any voice be silenced, and stand up against threats to life, freedom, justice and genuine peace.

We stand with our communities and the people, and say: Defend human rights!

21/11/2024

Members of Hustisya and SELDA Samahan ng Ex-Detainees Laban sa Detensyon at Aresto participate in a Luzon Peace Conference.

Resume GRP-NDFP peacetalks!
Uphold previously signed agreements in the peace process!
Address the roots of the armed conflict!

18/11/2024

16/11/2024

Mensahe ni Ka Orly Marcellana ng Hustisya sa ika-20 taong paggunita sa masaker sa Hacienda Luisita.

14/11/2024

Clarissa Ramos, wife of slain lawyer Atty. Ben Ramos, narrates how her husband and herself were red-tagged way before the killing.

She explains how Memorandum Order 32, implemented by the Rodrigo Duterte regime in the island of Negros, and the Anti-Terror Law which was signed under Duterte, have caused hundreds of activists and ordinary people killed, red-tagged, harassed, and suffer from human rights violations.

Ramos says that Duterte's statements in the ongoing investigations in Philippine Congress on the drug war killings only prove that he is a serial human rights violator.

Ramos calls that Duterte be held accountable, investigated and tried at the International Criminal Court, jailed and brought to justice.

14/11/2024

Son of killed activist calls out

Lean Porquia, son of Jory Porquia, speaks about the killing of his father, the killings of activists, and other human rights violations which the Duterte regime implemented in the six years of its term. He emphasized the grave effects of these attacks, including the red-tagging and threats against activists, to their family, to their hometown in Iloilo, and the rest of the country.

Lean joins the call to hold Duterte accountable for all his sins and crimes against the Filipino people.

10/11/2024

Rights groups emphasize Duterte’s accountability in EJKs of activists, peace consultants

Rights groups Hustisya and Karapatan firmly support the decision of kin of massacre victims from Southern Tagalog to bring their case to the United Nations Human Rights Committee (UNHRC) after failing to attain justice from Philippine courts.

Those who filed a complaint with the UNHRC are Rosenda Lemita, mother of fisherfolk organizer Ana Marie Lemita-Evangelista, and Liezl Asuncion, wife of trade union leader Manny Asuncion.

Asuncion, Bagong Alyansang Makabayan-Cavite coordinator, and activist Ana Marie Evangelista, who was slain with her husband Ariel, were among the nine individuals killed in the region-wide dragnet conducted by police and military elements in the early morning of March 7, 2021 in the provinces of Rizal, Batangas and Cavite. Now referred to as Bloody Sunday, the operations that targeted a total of 24 individuals through the use of spurious search warrants, also resulted in the arrests of six activists. The victims, most of them community-based organizers, had all been previously red-tagged, threatened or harassed before the Bloody Sunday incident.

Two days before the crackdown, then president Rodrigo Duterte infamously ordered the police and the military to “finish off” New People's Army rebels and ignore human rights.

The Department of Justice (DOJ) deployed a team of prosecutors that conducted perfunctory investigations of the Bloody Sunday killings and, not surprisingly, ended up exonerating the perpetrators.

“This is the kind of ‘working justice system’ that we have in the country,” said Karapatan secretary general Cristina Palabay. “It is one that works to ensure impunity for the perpetrators of state-sponsored killings and deny justice to the victims.”

“With the utter failure of the Philippine justice system to give the victims their due, they have decided to file a complaint before the UNHRC, which monitors compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), to which the Philippines is a state party,” explained Palabay. “The extrajudicial killings of Manny Asuncion, the Evangelistas and many others are grievous violations of the ICCPR, for which the Philippine government, as a state party, must be sanctioned and held accountable,” she said.

Meanwhile, Atty. VJ Topacio, son of slain National Democratic Front of the Philippines consultants Agaton Topacio and Eugenia Magpantay, called on the Quad committee of the House of Representatives to pursue investigations on the Duterte administration-sponsored extrajudicial killings of activists and peace consultants.

“The blood and money trail of the very same police coddled and ordered by Duterte to kill in the drug war lead to the extrajudicial killings of activists and peace consultants such as my parents. We ask the Quad committee to investigate former police officials Debold Sinas, Lito Patay, and Romeo Caramat, among others,” Topacio stated.

Families of victims of extrajudicial killings and other rights violations under the organization Hustisya in the counterinsurgency campaigns of both Duterte and Marcos Jr. gathered on Saturday, November 9, 2024, to write letters to House Speaker Martin Romualdez and the chairpersons of the Quad committee to ask that such killings be brought to fore, in continuing efforts to hold Duterte accountable.

Hustisya and Karapatan said they will be organizing activities towards International Human Rights Day on December 10, to press for justice and accountability of both Marcos and Duterte for the violations on human rights and International Humanitarian Law committed by their State forces.

01/11/2024

"NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW"

Sa isang open letter, nagpaalala ang dalawang anak ng mga biktima ng extrajudicial killings sa mga senador na nagtatanggol kay dating pangulo sa kabila ng kanyang mga ibinunyag sa pagdinig ng Senado.

Anila, pagtatraydor sa sinumpaang tungkulin ng mga mambabatas ang pagkatig sa isang indibidwal, kahit pa dati siyang pangulo ng bansa, na umamin sa pag-udyok sa mga iligal na pagpatay at iba pang karahasan.

"Any individual who confesses to directing and sanctioning murder is a criminal, regardless of their past office. The position they once held does not grant immunity from justice, nor does it erase the lives lost at their behest. For you, as senators, to now shield such an individual undercuts not only our legal system but the very trust that the Filipino people placed in you," dagdag nila Atty. VJ Topacio at Lean Porquia.

Pinagbabaril ng mga pulis ang mga magulang ni Topacio sa kanilang bahay sa Rizal noong 2020. Pareho ang sinapit ng ama ni Porquia sa Iloilo noong parehong taon. Human rights defenders ang mga biktima.

28/10/2024

Panawagan ng HUSTISYA: Duterte, Panagutin!

Muling lumalakas ang sigaw ng bawat Pilipino para sa katarungan — katarungan para sa mga biktima ng madugong kampanyang kontra-droga ng nakaraang administrasyon. Hindi sapat na kalimutan na lamang ang nakaraang trahedya. Sa ilalim ng panunungkulan ni dating pangulo Rodrigo Duterte, mahigit 30,000 buhay ang nawala dahil sa kanilang Oplan Tokhang at Oplan Double Barrel.

Umaalingawngaw na ngayon ang mga kwento ng mga pamilyang naiwan - mga kwentong puno ng sakit, pangungulila, at mga tanong na walang kasagutan. Tao ang bawat nawala. May pamilya, may pangarap. Sa halip na proteksyon, takot at pangamba ang naidulot ng madugong kampanyang ito sa mamamayan. Subali’t hindi lamang si Duterte ang may pananagutan - kasama niya ang mga opisyal at indibidwal na pulis na nang-abuso sa kanilang kapangyarihan, nagbulag-bulagan sa tama, at naging bahagi ng sukdulang kalupitan.

Ang pangakong “kapayapaan” at “kaligtasan” ay naging tabing lamang para sa isang madugong kampanya. Sa halip na kapayapaan, mas matinding takot at kawalang-hustisya ang idinulot nito. Sa bawat buhay na kinitil nang walang proseso, may pulis o opisyal na nang-abuso ng kapangyarihan, at may lider na pumikit sa harap ng mga paglabag. Ipinakita nila ang lubos na pagbalewala sa dangal at karapatan ng bawat Pilipino.

Batid at alam na alam namin ang sakit na nararamdaman ng mga kaanak ng pinaslang sa pekeng gera kontra-droga. Ang aming mga mahal sa buhay, na maling pinaratangang mga terorista, ay pinatay ng mga militar at pulis dahil kanilang paninindigan at pagkilos para sa mga batayang karapatan ng mamamayan.

Ito ay panahon para manindigan. Hindi tayo dapat manahimik habang nananatiling malaya ang mga may-sala. Ang HUSTISYA, kasama ang mga pamilyang naulila at bawat Pilipinong nagmamahal sa katarungan, ay hindi titigil hangga’t hindi napapanagot ang bawat isang salarin — mula sa mga nag-utos hanggang sa nagpatupad ng mga pamamaslang.

Sa bawat Pilipino, isang panawagan: Tumindig tayo, magkaisa para sa isang makatao at makatarungang lipunan. Hindi natin hahayaang manaig ang kultura ng kawalang-pananagutan.