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This report is just fresh on Bulutlat. Looks like a Philippine poet and his friend have been tortured and beaten by state police for an alleged anti-government "destabilization plot."” For that you can read expressing an opinion.

Pinpin, 34, an Agriculture graduate of the Cavite State University, is a 1999 Fellow of the University of the Philippines (UP) Writers’ Workshop and author of a self-published poetry compilation titled Tugmaang Walang Tugma (Rhyming without Ryhmes). Friends say he had been compiling poems for a second book at the time he was arrested.


Please email the Philippine government expressing your concern for their safety. Demand a public inquiry and point out that freedom of expression is an integral part of any functioning democracy. (Note: sending abuse can endanger detainees and be counterproductive.)