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LARAWAN: Day of the Endangered Lawyer Progressive groups support peoples lawyers Supreme Court January 23, 2015 Peoples’ lawyers have been standing side by side with the poor and oppressed in the Philippines - the very reason why they are harassed, surveilled, intimidated and worse, killed. In March 14, 2005, Tacloban City-based lawyer Atty. Felidito Dacut, a member of Bayan Muna and legal counsel of Katungod-Eastern Visayas, a local chapter of Karapatan, was killed by an unknown gunman shortly after he came from a meeting. Atty. Dacut was another victim of the US-backed counter insurgency programOplan Bantay Laya of former Pres. Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, and of suspected military men under the command of Gen. Palparan. karapatan.org/Stop+the+attacks+against+peoples%E2%80%99+lawyers
Posted on: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 07:28:52 +0000

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