A HUMAN rights group on Tuesday called on courts to immediately resolve cases against four of seven activists arrested on International Human Rights Day in December 2020, following the dismissal of charges against the three others.

“We are glad that the (Quezon City) Regional Trial Court sided with the truth. But justice still hangs in suspended animation for the four other imprisoned activists,” said Fides Lim, spokesperson of Kapatid, a support group for families and friends of political prisoners in the Philippines.

“The prison doors must open for them too because their arrest likewise resulted from the same poisoned tree from which the search warrants were procured on Dec. 10, 2020,” she added.

A Quezon City RTC on Monday dismissed the charges of illegal possession of firearms and explosives against a labor activist, citing that the search warrant used was obtained illegally.

Two others of those arrested were also ordered released last year by a Mandaluyong City court based on similar grounds. — John Victor D. Ordoñez

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