New series of concocted charges: US-Arroyo regime’s desperate attempt to persecute and criminalize leaders

Member unions, organizations, and provincial alliances under the leadership of Pagkakaisa ng Manggagawa sa Timog Katagalugan (PAMANTIK-KMU) and Organized Labor Associations in Line Industries and Agriculture (OLALIA-KMU) condemn to the highest terms US-Arroyo regime’s new rounds of harassment, employing its courts, police and military, pressing false charges against and arbitrarily arrest known leaders and members [...]

NUJP expresses concern over the arrest of human rights lawyer Remigio Saladero Jr.

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November 4, 2008
The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines views with concern the arrest and continuing detention of Atty. Remigio Saladero Jr., veteran human rights, labor and media lawyer. He also writes a column for Pinoy Weekly.
Although known more as a labor lawyer, Atty. Saladero is a defender of press freedom, having argued [...]

BAYAN condemns arrest of people’s lawyer Atty. Remigio Saladero, continuing attacks on activists

October 24, 2008
Reference: Dr. Carol Pagaduan-Araullo, Chairperson
The Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (BAYAN) condemns in strongest terms the arrest of Atty. Remigio Saladero on trumped-up charges of multiple murder in Mindoro. As of this morning, he is being held by police and military forces in a red Toyota vehicle supposedly bound to Mindoro.
The arrest of Atty. Saladero [...]

Human Rights Watch: Philippines: Free Labor Rights Lawyer; Continuing Harassment of Leftist Activists

(New York, October 29, 2008) – The Philippine authorities should immediately release Remigio Saladero, Jr., a labor lawyer who was arrested on charges that appeared to be politically motivated, Human Rights Watch said today.
Philippine police arrested Saladero on October 23, 2008, at his law office in Antipolo City, in Rizal province, his attorney said. The [...]

Migrante International supports the call to free Atty. Remigio Saladero and other mass leaders and organizers of progressive organizations in Southern Tagalog

November 13, 2008
Migrante International, together with our one hundred member-organizations in 22 countries, declares its unstinting support for the call to free Atty. Remigio Saladero and other mass leaders and organizers of progressive organizations in Southern Tagalog (ST).
Aside from being a renowned legal defender of union workers, Atty. Saladero is also a diligent lawyer of [...]