Pro-active doable measures to protect and save lives of prisoners
Pro-active doable measures to protect and save lives of prisoners
Kapatid seeks to join hands with you all to continue pressing government agencies for expedient, positive, humanitarian action for the benefit of prisoners, including political prisoners, amid the continuing pandemic. Tao rin sila, may karapatang makaligtas sa pandemya.
By FIDES LIM
Kapatid Spokesperson
Just last week, two political prisoners died within two days. On May 9, 58-year old Maximo Redota, a peasant organizer held at the Gumaca jail in Quezon, one of the most congested jails in the provinces, died of a stroke at a hospital while awaiting the dismissal of his last trumped-up case.
On May 11, 59-year-old Joseph Canlas, vice chair of the Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas and leader of its Central Luzon regional alliance, died at the ICU of the Lingad regional hospital in San Fernando, Pampanga. In jail, he was already having difficulty breathing yet his appeals for medical attention were ignored. It was only when he was rushed to the hospital was he tested for COVID-19, which turned out positive.
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