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(Manila) – Philippine authorities are filing baseless terrorism-financing charges against civil society groups and activists, apparently to be removed from the “grey list” of a global ...
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. “We’re just pawns in this ...
Jasmin Jerusalem, head of an award-winning aid group in Eastern Visayas, faces a court, calls the case arbitrary, and warns ...
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 ...
MANILA, Philippines — 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.
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 ...
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 ...
Deo Montesclaros is the second journalist in the Philippines to be implicated under the country’s anti-terrorism laws. This statement was originally published on cmfr-phil.org on 4 February 2025.. On ...
BAGUIO CITY — After hurdling five criminal charges and being designated as a terrorist by the government, Cordillera activist Sarah Abellon-Alikes now faces alleged violation of the Terrorism ...
A background report on the Philippine's battle with domestic and foreign terrorism. Read the Full Transcript Notice: Transcripts are machine and human generated and lightly edited for accuracy.
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 ...
The September 2021 “protest” against the Leyte Center for Development. Credit - Courtesy LCDE It was back in September 2021 when Jazmin “Minet” Aguisanda-Jerusalem received a phone call ...