Filing baseless terrorism financing charges and freezing assets have disrupted legitimate activities of civil society groups, Human Rights Watch said.

At last count, some 64 NGOs across the Philippines are facing criminal charges including financing terrorism or even murder. “It’s about money,” says Minet.

Catholic nuns from a missionary order in the Philippines have denounced a criminal charge accusing them of financing terrorism and violating the country’s anti-terrorism law.

January 14, 2025 The International Coalition for Human Rights in the Philippines (ICHRP) condemns the arrests of three development workers in Negros, on trumped-up charges of financing terrorism ...

The draft Anti-Terrorism Act of 2020 passed both the House of Representatives and the Senate, and President Rodrigo Duterte is expected to quickly sign the bill into law.

Defiant Catholic nuns in the Philippines facing criminal charges for allegedly financing terrorist groups have dismissed the allegations and defended their presence in poor and rural communities. The ...

Jasmin Jerusalem, head of an award-winning aid group in Eastern Visayas, faces a court, calls the case arbitrary, and warns ...

Cordillera activist Sarah Abellon-Alikes faces new terrorism financing charges, raising concerns over judicial harassment and human rights violations ...

Protesters condemn the charges against Deo Montesclaros and others, during a demontration in front of the Department of Justice, Manila, Philippines, 7 February 2025. Altermidya / National Union of ...

Last week, the Department of Justice announced it had filed, before the Regional Trial Court in Iligan City, 55 charges of “terrorism financing” against four nuns and a dozen other individuals ...

In July 2021, the state prosecutor charged her with financing terrorism based on funds found in her office. On the same day as her court appearance, several civil rights and journalist groups ...