The disappearance of a pair of Cagayan-based activists drew an outcry from rights groups and the UP Manila, the alma mater of one of the two community organizers allegedly “captured alive” by government forces on May 18. | AbbyBoiserINQ /PDI
Expressing deep concern for its alumna Patricia Cierva and her fellow activist Cedric Casaño, UPM, in a statement on Saturday, called on their captors to release the two, urging all government agencies to “adhere to the basic tenets of democracy.
The university called for “the surfacing of not just Cierva and Casaño but of all those who were wrongly taken and arrested.”
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