The Department of Justice charges atleast 16 people, including nuns, linked with the Rural Missionaries of the Philippines for a non-bailable offense of allegedly providing funds to the CPP-NPA

The Department of Justice has charged at least 16 people, including nuns, linked with the Rural Missionaries of the Philippines for a non-bailable offense of allegedly providing funds to the CPP-NPA. (Read More Here).

Lawyer Mico Clavano of the Office of the Justice Secretary said that the charges were filed on Monday, August 15 before the Iligan City Regional Trial Court. (Read More Here).

He cited privacy as reason for withholding the document after reporters pressed for copy of the resolution.

RMP has not been designated as a terrorist group by any court in the country nor by using the contested power of the Anti-Terrorism Council under the Anti-Terror Law. CPP-NPA was designated in December 2020.