Vera FILES FACT SHEET: ‘Extra-legal’ at ‘extrajudicial’ na pagpatay, ipinaliwanag
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FACT SHEET: ‘Extra-legal’ and ‘extrajudicial’ killings, explained
“EJK” is the more popular term, but “ELK” is more commonly used in legal documents as it is broader, and “embraces any situation where somebody was killed without due process,” said lawyer Romel Bagares.
VERA FILES FACT CHECK: PNP Chief Dela Rosa inulit ang maling kahulugan ng EJKs
Inulit ang maling pahayag na unang ginawa ni Foreign Affairs Secretary Alan Peter Cayetano, si Police Chief Ronald Dela Rosa naman ang nagbigay ng depinisyon ng extrajudicial killings (EJKs) sa pamamagitan ng di-wastong pag gamit ng administrative order ni Benigno S. Aquino III.
VERA FILES FACT CHECK: PNP Chief Dela Rosa repeats faulty definition of EJKs
The SC in a 2007 ruling defined EJKs as “killings committed without due process of law.”
‘Me Pulis sa ilalim ng tulay ‘ in times of EJK
When things are difficult, you laugh and you sing.
Bearing witness: Photogs tell the story of extrajudicial killings
The glare of a drugstore sign floods the street, shining on the lifeless body of a man sprawled on the wet concrete, a crime scene cordoned off by the usual police tape and curious bystanders who have gathered to ogle the latest victim in the government’s war against drugs.
Now, it’s media’s fault
By ELLEN T. TORDESILLAS IN trying to control damage wrought by the President Duterte’s verbal rampage against the United Nations in the early hours Sunday, Foreign Secretary Perfecto Yasay, Jr. on Monday chose to put the blame on media. “It was done in the wee hours of the morning and he was very tired,
Extrajudicial killings in the Philippines: Is the situation really improving?
By CAROLYN MERCADO
DESPITE the advent of a new and popular administration and President Aquino’s promise to end all human rights violations, the country has not seen the last of them. Torture, extrajudicial killings, and enforced disappearances continue with impunity. They continue to be widespread and systematic, with most victims tagged as “enemies of the state” and the majority of the suspects identified as state security forces.
Press and civil society effective weapons vs EJKs
A STRONG civil society and a vigilant press have been the country’s most effective weapons against extrajudicial killings, in the face of government’s failure to both prevent and prosecute such cases, a human rights lawyer said recently.
Life without Liezelda: A widower’s struggle for justice
By NESTOR B. RAMIREZ
TAGBILARAN CITY—It was Gerry Cuñado’s third time to take the witness stand. But the grief that overcame him in court the morning of July 15 was as raw as what he first felt when his wife, Liezelda, a women’s rights advocate, was killed in their home in Candijay town the night of July 3, 2006. She was 30 at the time.
