AN environmentalist and human rights advocate has been arrested at a police checkpoint in Ilocos Sur while on board a bus on his way home from Candon City.

Sherwin de Vera, coordinator of Defend Ilocos, a network of environmental advocates in the Ilocos Region, has been facing charges of rebellion that were filed in Abra in September 2014.

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