(1st UPDATE) 'The shockingly inhumane situation of PDLs in our congested jails is something that calls for urgent attention,' David says of persons deprived of liberty in the Philippines
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“I will consider it a wonderful gesture on the part of the government if at the start of the Jubilee year of hope 2025, the last remaining political prisoners still languishing in jail after several decades of waiting for trial are granted amnesty, pardon or outright release for humanitarian reasons,” David told Rappler in a message Thursday evening, after celebrating mass in the morning at the facility for political prisoners in Camp Bagong Diwa.
shows that political prisoners wait an average of four years on trial, with some waiting more than two decades before they could get a verdict.“I was surprised to hear that five prisoners who waited for 21 years for their cases to be finally decided in court were judged to be innocent of the charges against them, and were finally released!” David told Rappler.
“We hope that with your help and the people’s support, all political prisoners in the country will be set free,” Ladlad added.that the Marcos government opened with the communists in late 2023 have stalled, with some regressions shown by the fact that the Philippine government refused to declare a holiday ceasefire with the New Peoples’ Army, the armed wing of the communists.
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