MANILA, Philippines — Eighty-nine cases involving the deaths of human rights activists from 2017 to 2019 are now being investigated by the Commission on Human Rights (CHR), an official said Friday. “The data that we have from 2017 to 2019, we have a total of 89, not to include the ones happening now. We call them human rights defenders,” CHR commissioner Leah Armamento said over ABS-CBN News Channel when asked about the number of killings of activists and members of progressive groups being investigated by the commission. However, the CHR was not able to complete all its investigations on the 89 incidents. She also noted that some human rights defenders were red-tagged or linked to the communist movement before they were killed.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer August 21, 2020 02:37 UTC