The Philippines government has voted to extend martial law in the southern island of Mindanao, following a year in which Islamic militants shocked the nation in taking -- and holding, for several ...

Experts fear the Philippine president is testing the waters for a constitutionally viable declaration of nationwide martial law. By Nick Aspinwall May 26, 2020 ...

The numbers — 70,000 detained, 35,000 tortured, 3,200 killed — represent the victims of President Ferdinand E. Marcos’ era of martial law, from 1972 to 1986. They mark one of the darkest ...

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's recent announcement that he would, by the end of the year, lift martial law over the country's vast, often violent southern island of Mindanao after 31 ...

MANILA, Philippines — The victims of Martial Law and their families' quest for justice continues more than three decades since the Marcos dictatorship fell, and in 2020, they are called to ...

On Sept. 16, the University of the Philippines Diliman College of Mass Communication Interdependent Student-centered Activism (UP CMC ISA) will host “Martial Law: Never Again, Never Forget,” a ...

Philippines martial law: The fight to remember a decade of arrests and torture. 28 September 2022. ... amassed a huge collection of art and other luxuries, including hundreds of pairs of shoes ...

Children from the southern Philippines expressed their opposition to martial law in Mindanao through drawings and paintings in an art workshop in Manila on Nov. 15. A group of 25 children from ...

Santiago Matela was 22 when he was dragged off the street by soldiers while playing basketball. The year was 1977, five years since President Ferdinand E Marcos had declared martial law in the ...