PRESIDENT NOYNOY : RELEASE NOW THE COUNTRY’S POLITICAL PRISONERS!

We, the undersigned political prisoners detained in Central Visayas, will be holding another one-week fasting on June 20-26, 2011 to press the Noynoy Aquino Government to finally act on our demands, to wit :

1. Immediately effect the freedom of Alan Jasmines, Tirso Alcantara and thirteen other National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) Consultants and JASIG-protected persons, as well as four more detainees ‘involved in the peace process’, who were mentioned and referred to in the February 21, 2011 Joint Statement of the Negotiating Panels of both the Government of the Philippines (GPH) and the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP); and
2. Jumpstart the process of releasing the 320 other political prisoners in the country through the grant of a general, unconditional and omnibus amnesty, as their freedom forms part of the confidence-building measures that enhance the GPH-NDFP peace negotiations, and which release has become an obligation of the Noynoy Aquino Government when it signed the February 21, 2011 Oslo Joint Statement.

We are launching this one-week fasting at a time when the second round of the GPH-NDFP Peace Talks is supposed to be held, in the hope that President Noynoy Aquino sincerely wants to advance the cause of a just peace through the negotiating table.

SGD:

ALBERTO ACERDIN
(Danao City Jail, Danao City, Cebu)

RAMON M. PATRIARCA
(Danao City Jail, Danao City, Cebu)

FLORENCIO QUINIO
(Bohol District Jail, Tagbilaran City, Bohol,)

DANILO BADAYOS
(Dumaguete City Jail, Dumaguete City, Negros Oriental)

RICKY DE LA CRUZ
(Dumaguete City Jail, Dumaguete City, Negros Oriental)