In the Philippines, human rights group has publicly denounce the necessary for the administration of President Benigno Aquino III over the quandary of political prisoners in the Philippines.

Composing of former detainees themselves, it has been noted that The Samahan ng mga Ex-detainees Laban sa Detensyon at Aresto (SELDA or the Organization of Ex-detainees Against Detention and Arrest), out of 561 political prisoners currently still deteriorating in jail, 304 or more than 54 percent were arrested under the Aquino Administration.

Stating the statement, “This administration persists in arresting and filing trumped up charges against those it perceives as enemies of the state. Six months from now, the Aquino government shall end, yet it continues to criminalize just and militant political deeds. It maintains that revolutionaries are plain criminals who deserve neither justice nor humane treatment,”

Adding, they also shares that any prisoner released would be due to dismissal of cases due to lack of evidence.

“If any political prisoner was freed during his term, it is not because of Aquino’s policy to observe human rights – because there is none. It is because of the people’s movement to fight it out in the courts, in spite of the odds, leading to the dismissal of cases for lack of evidence,”