Rights Lawyers Slam Military for Continuing to Distort Reality
Incredible testimony of the ‘Morong 5’ will wilt before their original spontaneous and voluntary accounts Press Statement: May 14, 2012 “The military’s latest statement that there was no torture defies logic and distorts reality.” This was the statement of the National Union of Peoples’ Lawyer (NUPL) Panel of Private Prosecutors through NUPL Secretary General Atty. [...]
Read MoreIn the News: March 2012
The following are articles from media websites mentioning the National Union of Peoples’ Lawyers (NUPL) or its member-lawyers on March 2012. Hold Arroyo liable for human rights violations, Aquino told by Ronalyn Olea, Bulatlat.com Posted on March 1, 2012 “She [Arroyo] either knew, acquiesced, tolerated or gave orders [on these human rights violations],” Edre Olalia, [...]
Read MoreMilitary Continues to Spew “Goebbelish” Claim Health Workers were not Tortured
Pnoy Must Understand the Subtext of Command Responsibility Press Statement: May 5, 2012 “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of [...]
Read MoreCriminal indictment for rights violations awaits GMA, other top military and police officials
Promotion of Col. Zaragoza, Brig. Gen. Baladad and Maj. Gen. Segovia deplored Press Release May 3, 2012 More than a year after six of them filed a civil case for damages and despite exasperation over the slow grind of the wheels of justice, eight of the Morong 43 health workers finally filed a separate [...]
Read MoreRights lawyers join farmers in celebrating Luisita victory
Renews calls for justice to martyred victims Press Release April 25, 2012 On the ruling of the Supreme Court En Banc on Hacienda Luisita ordering land distribution and pegging the just compensation on the fair market value of the land in November 1989, the National Union of Peoples Lawyers (NUPL), through its Secretary General [...]
Read MoreArraignment in the disappearance of university students signals start of arduous trial
PNoy prodded to speak up Press Release April 23, 2012 Two of the accused, Col. Felipe Anotado and S/Sgt. Edgardo Osorio, in the case involving the disappearance of the two University students were arraigned today at the Malolos, Bulacan Regional Trial Court (RTC) Branch 14. “The just concluded arraignment of Ret. Maj. Gen. Jovito [...]
Read MoreAttack on Young and New NUPL Lawyer Saving Trees, Condemned
Press Release April 22, 2012 We, the National Union of Peoples’ Lawyers (NUPL), condemn the brazen and barbaric assault on NUPL member Atty. Jansen Nacar on the night of April 20. Atty. Nacar, who is a new and young lawyer, was mauled and divested of his cellular phones but attackers would not take his wallet. [...]
Read MoreNUPL hails court order denying Palparan et al.’s pleading to halt proceedings
Motion only obstructs and frustrates justice Press Release April 20, 2012 The National Union of Peoples’ Lawyers (NUPL) just received an Omnibus Order dated April 3, 2012 from the Malolos, Bulacan Regional Trial Court Branch 14 denying the “Omnibus Motion for Preliminary Investigation; to Quash or Recall Warrant of Arrest; Hold Departure Order; and [...]
Read MorePNoy unfeeling, numb and insensitive to Morong 43 and other rights victims
Pats on the back rights violator by promotion and awarding new post News Release April 12, 2012 “Unbelievably insensitive, if not unfeeling and numb.” This was how the National Union of Peoples’ Lawyers (NUPL) through its Secretary General Atty. Edre Olalia described the designation by President Benigno Aquino III of 10th Infantry Division chief [...]
Read MoreNUPL on the status of Palparan case and its one month hiatus
“Of course, we desire and it is to the suffering mothers’ interests that the legal proceedings continue in earnest and without unnecessary or unwarranted delay. But we are also subject to the vagaries and realities of court schedules under the present legal system. Besides, the pending plethora of motions of Palparan and his cohorts are groundless and not meritorious. They are only designed to delay, mock and frustrate justice instead of allowing the legal process to take its due course.
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