Posted in Press Statements on Oct 24th, 2011
PRESS STATEMENT October 24, 2011 Contact: Rhonda Ramiro Justice for Melissa Campaign Email: info@justiceformelissa.org The Justice for Melissa campaign expresses its deepest condolences to the families of Fr. Fausto “Pops” Tentorio and Ramon Batoy. The Justice for Melissa campaign condemns the brutal extra-judicial killings of Italian missionary Fr. Fausto “Pops” Tentorio and farmer activist Ramon [...]
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Posted in Press Statements on Oct 13th, 2011
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 13, 2011 Contact: Rhonda Ramiro or Kuusela Hilo Justice for Melissa Campaign Email: info@justiceformelissa.org SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA — The Filipina Women’s Network has selected Melissa Roxas as one of the 100 Most Influential Filipina Women in the United States. While doing community health work in the Philippines, Ms. Roxas was abducted, [...]
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Posted in Press Statements on Sep 21st, 2011
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 21, 2011 Reference: Justice for Melissa Campaign Email: info@justiceformelissa.org Website: www.justiceformelissa.org Online whistleblower Wikileaks released three classified cables earlier this month which included then-US ambassador to the Philippines Kristie Kenney’s comments on the abduction and torture of Melissa Roxas from May 19-25, 2009 at the hands of the Philippine military. The [...]
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Posted in Press Statements on Aug 22nd, 2011
MEDIA ADVISORY August 22, 2011 Contact: Kuusela Hilo Justice for Melissa Roxas Campaign Email: info@justiceformelissa.org Website: www.justiceformelissa.org What: Justice for Melissa Press Conference; Appeal to UN Special Rapporteur on Torture. Where: Immanuel Presbyterian Church 3300 Wilshire Boulevard Los Angeles, CA 90010 When: Thursday, August 25, 2011, 6 PM – 7 PM *** PHOTO OPPORTUNITY *** [...]
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Posted in Press Statements on Aug 16th, 2011
MEDIA ADVISORY Contact: Kuusela Hilo Justice for Melissa Roxas Campaign Email: info@justiceformelissa.org Website: www.justiceformelissa.org What: Justice for Melissa Press Conference; Appeal to UN Special Rapporteur on Torture Where: Immanuel Presbyterian Church 3300 Wilshire Boulevard Los Angeles, CA 90010 When: Thursday, August 25, 2011, 6 PM – 7 PM Los Angeles, CA. In commemoration of the [...]
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Posted in Press Statements on May 25th, 2011
PRESS RELEASE Contact: Kuusela Hilo Justice for Melissa Roxas Campaign Email: info@justiceformelissa.org Website: www.justiceformelissa.org To mark the 2nd year anniversary of Melissa Roxas’s survival of enforced disappearance and torture and the international campaign to surface Melissa, hundreds of supporters have signed on to an open letter addressing Philippine President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III, Department of [...]
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Posted in Press Statements on Apr 26th, 2011
Karapatan Statement “If we have seen the horrible gross, systematic rights violations during the Arroyo regime, we should brace ourselves for the continuation of these violations and the rule of IMPUNITY under the Aquino regime’s Oplan Bayanihan,” so warned Marie Hilao-Enriquez, Chairperson of the human rights alliance, KARAPATAN, commenting on the recent CHR resolution on [...]
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Posted in Press Statements on Apr 26th, 2011
Desaparecidos Statement “How else can victims of human rights violations seek the help of the Commission on Human Rights if the commission screws up on our claims,” Lorena P. Santos, deputy secretary general of Families of the Desaparecidos for Justice said as her group criticized the CHR investigation on the abduction and torture of Melissa [...]
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Posted in Press Statements on Apr 26th, 2011
MAKABAYAN Coalition Statement Former House representative and MAKABAYAN Coalition vice president Liza Maza lambasted the latest Commission of Human Rights (CHR) report signed by its chair Ma. Loretta Ann Rosales absolving state forces from the abduction and torture of Melissa Roxas in 2009. Maza called Rosales a “coddler of torturers”. “It is a fact that [...]
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Posted in Press Statements on Apr 26th, 2011
NEWS RELEASE Reference: Atty. Edre U. Olalia National Union of People’s Lawyers (NUPL) Secretary – General (09175113373) Human rights lawyers association National Union of People’s Lawyers (NUPL) challenged the resolution of the Commission of Human Rights on the abduction and torture of Melissa Roxas, a Filipino-American activist and Bayan-USA member. “We are at a loss [...]
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