(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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

President Rodrigo Duterte is expected to sign legislation defining terrorism so broadly that critics of the government could easily be detained without charge. By Jason Gutierrez and Richard C ...

The Philippines' Supreme Court largely upheld an anti-terrorism law this week that spawned rancorous challenges, in a ruling that could have far-reaching impacts in the Southeast Asian country.

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.

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 ...