LOCAL human rights group Karapatan has written the United Nations Human Rights Council to call attention to the killing, illegal arrest and detention and other rights abuses against protesting farmers in Kidapawan City on April 1 that the group blamed on the police.

The group asked for an investigation on the rights abuses against the farmers through Maina Kai, special rapporteur on the Rights to Freedom of Peaceful Assembly and of Association; Michel Forst, special rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights Defenders; and Seong-Phil Hong, chairman-rapporteur of the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention.

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