DAVAO CITY — Leaflets red-tagging members of the media, several lawyers, church officials and members of progressive groups circulated during the launch of a group of human rights victims here, the latest case of harassment against human rights defenders in Northern Mindanao, a human rights group said Friday. Karapatan secretary-general Cristina Palabay deplored the release of what she described as a “military hit list” as another attack against individuals and groups critical of the Duterte administration. Rolando Abejo of the Movement Against Tyranny-Northern Mindanao, Karapatan Northern Mindanao spokesperson Fr. Khen Apus, human rights lawyers Beverly Musni, Czarina Musni, and Beverly Ann Musni and Cagayan de Oro-based journalist Cong Corrales and his family. “Such notorious lists have further endangered the already perilous situation of human rights defenders.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer February 22, 2019 09:45 UTC