Red-tagged human rights and peasant organizations’ leaders and lawyers have suffered physical harm at the hands of government security forces and vigilantes; several have even lost their lives. A group of nuns and peasant women who were accused of supporting “terrorist activities” were among those who faced harassment.
Among the most obvious victims of abuses and violations of human rights in the Philippines are some of our own UCCP pastors, Rev. Nathaniel “Dodo” Vallente and Pastor Jimmie Teves…, who have been detained for over a year now on trumped up accusations, while Rev. Edwin Egar and Rev. Juliet Egar, and Ronal Ramos of UCCP Macalamcam are also facing Anti-Terrorism Law and Anti- Terrorism Financing Law cases.
