Posted in Press Statements on Apr 25th, 2011
PRESS RELEASE Contact: Rhonda Ramiro BAYAN-USA Secretary General secgen@bayanusa.org “This is a cover-up,” stated BAYAN-USA Chair Bernadette Ellorin in response to the release of a Resolution by the Commission on Human Rights of the Philippines (CHR) on the case of the abduction and torture of Filipino American Melissa Roxas on May 19, 2009. The result [...]
Posted in Press Statements on Apr 25th, 2011
PRESS RELEASE BAYAN Philippines The umbrella group Bagong Alyansang Makabayan slammed the Commission on Human Rights for saying that Fil-Am activist Melissa Roxas may have been abducted by the New People’s Army and not the Armed Forces of the Philippines. “This assertion is misleading and practically clears the AFP of any liability. The resolution is [...]
Posted in Press Statements on Apr 24th, 2011
PRESS RELEASE BAYAN Philippines The umbrella group Bagong Alyansang Makabayan today slammed the Commission on Human Rights resolution on the case of the abduction and torture of Fil-Am activist Melissa Roxas. The group said that the report “practically clears the AFP of any wrongdoing”. “We are very disappointed with the report. This seems to be [...]
Posted in Press Statements on May 25th, 2010
PRESS RELEASE Contact: Kuusela Hilo Justice for Melissa Roxas Campaign Email: info@justiceformelissa.org Website: www.justiceformelissa.org On the one year anniversary of Melissa Roxas’ surfacing in Quezon City after enduring six days of physical and psychological torture at the hands of her captors, who many believe to have been the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), Roxas [...]
Posted in Press Statements on Feb 3rd, 2010
PRESS RELEASE Contact: Yoko Liriano NY Committee for Human Rights in the Philippines (NYCHRP) Email: nychrp@gmail.com NEW YORK– Nearly 100 concerned New Yorkers gathered at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Labor Center this past Saturday to listen to Melissa Roxas, the first US citizen under the Obama administration to be subjected to a gross human [...]
Posted in Press Statements on Jan 26th, 2010
PRESS RELEASE Contact: Yoko Liriano NY Committee for Human Rights in the Philippines (NYCHRP) Email: nychrp@gmail.com NEW YORK–The first US citizen under the Obama administration to be subjected to abduction and torture in the Philippines will be speaking in Manhattan this weekend to tell her story and help raise funds for and awareness on the [...]
Posted in Press Statements on Aug 29th, 2009
PRESS RELEASE Contact: Kuusela Hilo Justice for Melissa Roxas Campaign Email: info@justiceformelissa.org Website: www.justiceformelissa.org While the recent ruling by the Philippine Court of Appeals (CA) in favor of Melissa Roxas’ petition for a Writ of Amparo and Writ of Habeus Data affirms Roxas’ testimony to her May abduction and torture while illegally detained as the [...]
Posted in Press Statements on Aug 27th, 2009
PRESS RELEASE Migrant Heritage Commission Fil-Am Volunteer’s U.S. Lawyer Asks Rights Watchdog To Release Findings The veil of lies put up by Philippine President Gloria M. Arroyo’s military to hide their role in the abduction and torture of Filipino-American human rights volunteer Melissa Roxas has now crumbled. With their defense in the case now shaken, [...]
Posted in Press Statements on Aug 27th, 2009
PRESS RELEASE BAYAN Philippines The Bagong Alyansang Makabayan welcomes the positive findings and decisions of the Court of Appeals in relation to the petition for a writ of amparo by our colleague Melissa Roxas. The CA has correctly pointed out that Melissa was indeed abducted and tortured and that there is no truth to the [...]
Posted in Press Statements on Jul 29th, 2009
PRESS RELEASE Contact: Kuusela Hilo Justice for Melissa Roxas Campaign Email: info@justiceformelissa.org Website: www.justiceformelissa.org While former Philippine military leader-turned-lawmaker Jovito Palparan fails to break the credibility of American citizen Melissa Roxas’ testimony that it was the Philippine military that tortured and abducted her last May during a hearing before the Philippine House Committee on Human [...]