For his arrest in 1977 and incarceration, and because his wife’s psychological travails due to his detention, they were declared “human rights violations victims” during the Marcos regime, deserving to be, as Sison himself quipped, “instant millionaires.”It was the Human Rights Victims’ Claims Board (HRVCB) attached to the Commission on Human Rights that declared the Sison couple as “human rights violations victims,” and gave them P2.4 million. It was authorized under Republic Act 10368, or the Human Rights Victims Reparations Law, passed in February 2013. Hereby declaredThe law’s Section 1 legislated a history of Martial Law. It could even declare that Cory had the worst human rights violations among Philippine presidents. ***It probably says a lot about Sison that nobody knew that he and his wife had applied for compensation as human rights victims, until he admitted it when interviewed by a Europe-based TV network reporter.

Source: Manila Times September 25, 2018 16:30 UTC