“The repressive arm of the Arroyo administration seems to expand its targets of surveillance not only to organizers and leaders of partylist groups, church people, and journalists but now it also includes artists and members of the academe.” read more »
Gabriela Women’s Party Secretary General Cristina Palabay today strongly denounced the raid of a conference of progressive partylists in Cagayan allegedly by elements of the 17th IBPA and 5th ID of the Armed Forces of the Philippines last June 10, 2009 as “renewed spate of attacks and harassment of partylist groups critical of the administration.” read more »
