Several groups have condemned the conviction of Rep. France Castro (ACT-Teachers), former party-list lawmaker Satur Ocampo (Bayan Muna) and 11 others by a Tagum City court in a child abuse case.
MANILA, Philippines — Several groups have condemned the conviction of Rep. France Castro , former party-list lawmaker Satur Ocampo and 11 others by a Tagum City court in a child abuse case.In a statement, the ASEAN Parliamentarians for Human Rights , a group of former and current Southeast Asian lawmakers, slammed the court’s conviction of Castro and the others calling it an “absurd decision that has no basis in reality.
“We maintain that the mission to Talaingod in 2018 was a humanitarian response to the urgent plea of the Lumad community whose schools were being forcibly closed and whose children were being deprived of their right to education,” the group’s statement read. The accused maintained the incident was a “solidarity mission" aimed at rescuing Lumad schools and teachers from a food blockade and forcible closure of the school by a paramilitary group in Talaingod, Davao del Norte.The court’s decision was promulgated a week after the Makabayan bloc, a left-leaning party-list bloc at the House of Representatives, announced that it would be running a full Senate slate in the 2025 elections.
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