Calapan City, Oriental Mindoro — An alleged rebel and an American arrested by security forces in Laguna’s Cabuyao City on Thursday (July 30) are activists, according to the human rights group Karapatan in the Southern Tagalog region. The group and called for an independent investigation into alleged human rights and international humanitarian law violations committed against Binay Serrano and American citizen Christina Pasion. In a statement in Filipino, Karapatan Southern Tagalog asserted that the two were tied to the New People’s Army (NPA) “without basis,” after members of the Philippine Army’s 68th Infantry Battalion, together with the Philippine National Police […]...Keep on reading: Rights group says arrested rebel, American are activists