(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 ...

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

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 ...

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.

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is expected to sign the recently-passed legislation, which will allow authorities to classify dissent as terrorism. The Philippines’ Broad Anti-Terrorism Law ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...