“It appears that the Arroyo policy of witch-hunting, arrest,
criminalization of political offenses and/or the slapping of fabricated
criminal charges to silence and put behind bars human rights defenders
continues to be implemented under Aquino,” Angelina Ipong, Selda
spokeswoman, said.
By RONALYN V. OLEA
Bulatlat.com
MANILA – Hundreds of political prisoners in various detention cells
nationwide have started fasting today up to President Benigno S. Aquino
III’s State of the Nation Address (Sona) on Monday.
Dramatizing their call for general, unconditional and omnibus
amnesty, 230 political prisoners in Camp Crame, Camp Bagong Diwa, New
Bilibid Prisons, Manila City Jail, Quezon City Jail and other detention
cells in Central Luzon, Batangas, Cagayan Valley, Central Visayas,
Iloilo, Eastern Visayas, Southern Mindanao, Northern Mindanao, and
Caraga, participated in the fasting.
According to Karapatan and Samahan ng Ex-Detainees Laban sa Detensyon
at Aresto (Selda), there are 354 political prisoners nationwide.
Majority of them were arrested during the previous administration of
Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.
“The redress of injustice to all political prisoners and the return
of the freedom deprived from them are both a basic human right and an
essential element in the peace process,” political prisoners detained at
Camp Crame said in a joint statement.
“One year since the first Sona of Aquino, nothing has been done to
serve justice for the illegal arrest, torture and illegal detention of
the 354 political prisoners who are still languishing in jails all over
the country,” Angelina Ipong, a recently released political prisoner and
Selda spokeswoman, said..... MORE
Source: Bulatlat.com
URL: http://bulatlat.com/main/2011/07/22/political-prisoners-start-fasting-until-aquino%E2%80%99s-sona/
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