FIGHTING BACK Windel Bolinget, chair of Cordillera Peoples Alliance (3rd from left), is joined by fellow activists (from left) Sarah Abellon-Alikes, Jennifer Awingan-Taggaoa, and Stephen Tauli. —VINCENT CABREZA
BAGUIO CITY, Philippines — The local activists who were designated as terrorists by the government in 2023 elevated their petition to remove that tag to the Court of Appeals (CA), after a regional trial court (RTC) dismissed their case against the Anti-Terrorism Council (ATC).
Windel Bolinget, chair of the indigenous people’s rights group Cordillera Peoples Alliance, and its members Sarah Abellon-Alikes, Jennifer Awingan-Taggaoa, and Stephen Tauli, informed Baguio RTC Judge Hilario Belmes of Branch 78 that they have appealed his April 30 ruling before the CA “on both questions of fact and of law,” which they argue were “not in accord with law, prevailing jurisprudence and evidence.”
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