Indigenous rights advocates declared victims of enforced disappearance by Philippine court | Asia

Indigenous rights advocates declared victims of enforced disappearance by Philippine court | Asia

MANILA (LiCAS News): The Philippine Court of Appeals declared missing indigenous rights advocates, Dexter Capuyan and Gene Roz Jamil “Bazoo” De Jesus, as victims of enforced disappearance on August 12. The court recently granted the privileges of the Writ of Amparo [writ for the protection of constitutional rights] to the two activists, whose families have been searching for them since their abduction in Taytay town in Rizal province on 28 April…