The Free Legal Assistance Group (FLAG) on Saturday (Feb. 20) urged the public to stand up against government oppression.
Free Legal Assistance Group (FLAG) chairman Chel Diokno hit the proposal of some lawmakers to suspend the 2022 elections because of the pandemic.
Free Legal Assistance Group (FLAG) chairman and human rights lawyer Chel Diokno on Wednesday (Sept. 2) criticized President Rodrigo Duterte’s choice as head of the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth).
Free Legal Assistance Group (FLAG) chairman and human rights lawyer Chel Diokno lauded the Supreme Court (SC) for ruling that law enforcement cannot conduct searches in drug operations without warrant.
Free Legal Assistance Group (FLAG) chairman Chel Diokno lauded the decision of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) to file murder and planting of evidence complaints against the nine policemen involved in the killing of four soldiers in Jolo, Sulu.
Free Legal Assistance Group (FLAG) chairman Chel Diokno on Friday (Jult 17) expressed opposition to the plans of Interior Secretary Eduardo Ano to have police take persons with the COVID-19 disease from their homes.
Free Legal Assistance Group (FLAG) chairman Chel Diokno warned that having policemen go house to house to hunt down COVID-19 disease cases will only spread both fear and the virus.
Free Legal Assistance Group (FLAG) chairman Chel Diokno on Thursday (July 2) slammed the Philippine National Police (PNP) for its continued abuses and violations during this pandemic.
Free Legal Assistance Group (FLAG) chairman and human rights lawyer Chel Diokno on Friday (June 19) criticized the government for its continued failure to provide the public with transportation.
Free Legal Assistance Group (FLAG) chairman and human rights lawyer Chel Diokno said the continued denial of visitors to detained Sen. Leila De Lima violates her rights under the Constitution and international laws.
Free Legal Assistance Group (FLAG) chairman and human rights lawyer Chel Diokno on Saturday (June 6) questioned the decision of police to arrest Anti-Terrorism bill protesters at the University of the Philippines (UP) Cebu.
Free Legal Assistance Group (FLAG) chairman and human rights lawyer Chel Diokno on Wednesday (June 3) expressed fears he will be tagged a terrorist even when he is not once the Anti-Terrorism bill has been passed.
Amid the pandemic, Free Legal Assistance Group (FLAG) chairman and human rights lawyer Chel Diokno reminded Filipinos to continue to remember the victims who died because of President Rodrigo Duterte’s war against illegal drugs.
Free Legal Assistance Group (FLAG) chairman and human rights lawyer Chel Diokno questioned President Rodrigo Duterte’s decisition to retain National Capital Region Police Office (NCRPO) chief Maj. Gen. Debold Sinas.
Free Legal Assistance Group (FLAG) chairman Chel Diokno on Tuesday (May 12) has assured nurses in the country he got their backs.
Free Legal Assistance Group (FLAG) chairman Chel Diokno reminded China that the Paracels and Spratly Islands belong to the Philippines.
Free Legal Assistance Group (FLAG) chairman Chel Diokno on Monday (March 30) urged the public to scrutinize how the government is spending its national budget to fight the deadly 2019 coronavirus (COVID-19).
Free Legal Assistance Group (FLAG) chairman Chel Diokno believes Vice President Leni Robredo has the chance to put on the right path the administration’s drug war.
The Supreme Court (SC) on Tuesday (September 3) has dismissed the petition seeking for the issuance of a writ of kalikasan due to the withdrawal of fisherfolk petitioners.
Free Legal Assistance Group (FLAG) lawyers Lorenzo Tanada III, Chel Diokno and Theodore Te have asked the Department of Justice (DOJ) to disallow the Office of the Solicitor General (OSG) from participating in the sedition case against them and their co-respondents including members of the opposition.
The Supreme Court (SC) has upheld the constitutionality of the third extension given to martial law in Mindanao.
Former Bayan Muna party-list representative Neri Colmenares expressed fears that the next Supreme Court (SC) chief justice will just be a lapdog of President Rodrigo Duterte.
The Supreme Court (SC) has asked petitioners seeking to stop the administration’s anti-drug war to comment on Solicitor General Jose Calida’s refusal to hand over the list and details of the 3,806 persons killed during the police operations in the narcotics campaign.
Solicitor General Jose Calida has asked the Supreme Court (SC) to dismiss petitions seeking to declare as unconstitutional the illegal drugs campaign under Oplan Double Barrel of the Philippine National Police (PNP).
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