{"id":22757,"date":"2025-05-16T15:00:29","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T15:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/protect-lawyers.org\/philippines-communique-conjoint-sur-le-harcelement-et-les-menaces-visant-lavocate-des-droits-humains-maria-kristina-conti\/"},"modified":"2025-06-05T15:07:15","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T15:07:15","slug":"philippines-joint-statement-on-the-harassment-and-threats-targeting-human-rights-lawyer-maria-kristina-conti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/protect-lawyers.org\/en\/philippines-joint-statement-on-the-harassment-and-threats-targeting-human-rights-lawyer-maria-kristina-conti\/","title":{"rendered":"PHILIPPINES: Joint statement on the harassment and threats targeting human rights lawyer Maria Kristina Conti"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The undersigned organisations express grave concern over the escalating campaign of red-tagging, harassment, and threats targeting human rights lawyer Maria Kristina Conti in the Philippines.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Atty. Maria Kristina Conti is a prominent human rights lawyer, Secretary-General of the National Union of Peoples\u2019 Lawyers-National Capital Region (NUPL-NCR), and Treasurer of the Confederation of Lawyers of Asia and the Pacific (COLAP). She has played a central role in providing legal assistance to victims of grave human rights violations, particularly those committed in the context of former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte\u2019s so-called \u2018war on drugs\u2019. Atty. Conti is also registered as Assistant to Counsel at the International Criminal Court (ICC) with a potential role in the proceedings related to former President Duterte.<\/p>\n<p>Since Duterte\u2019s arrest on an ICC warrant in March 2025, Atty. Conti has faced an alarming escalation of threats. She has been subjected to red-tagging, vilification, malicious online attacks, and anonymous threats directed at both herself and her family. This concerted campaign appears to be a direct reprisal for her legitimate work as a lawyer and her engagement with international accountability mechanisms. These acts not only endanger Atty. Conti but are clearly intended to silence her and deter others from carrying out human rights-related legal work in the Philippines.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/protect-lawyers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Statement-on-Maria-Kristina-Conti_TIA_07052025.docx-1182365.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Read the full statement<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Signed\u00a0:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lawyers for Lawyers<\/li>\n<li>Law Society of England and Wales<\/li>\n<li>Association Democratic Jurists, Italy<\/li>\n<li>International Bar Association\u2019s Human Rights Institute<\/li>\n<li>The Defence Commission of the Barcelona Bar Association<\/li>\n<li>European Association of Lawyers for Democracy and World Human Rights (ELDH)<\/li>\n<li>Progressive Lawyers\u2019 Association, (\u00c7HD), Turkey<\/li>\n<li>International Association of Democratic Lawyers (IADL)<\/li>\n<li>Al-Haq, Law in the Service of Man<\/li>\n<li>Al Mezan Center for Human Rights<\/li>\n<li>The Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR)<\/li>\n<li>Democratic Lawyers Association of Bangladesh (DLAB)<\/li>\n<li>Portuguese Association Democr\u00e1tica Juristas<\/li>\n<li>Indian Association of Lawyers<\/li>\n<li>National Lawyers Guild International (US)<\/li>\n<li>The Center of Research and Elaboration on Democracy\/ Legal international Intervention Group (CRED, G\u0130G\u0130)<\/li>\n<li>Observatoire international des avocats en danger (OIAD)<\/li>\n<li>Asociaci\u00f3n Americana de Juristas<\/li>\n<li>Swiss Democratic Lawyers<\/li>\n<li>Foundation Day of the Endangered Lawyer<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The undersigned organisations express grave concern over the escalating campaign of red-tagging, harassment, and threats targeting human rights lawyer Maria Kristina Conti in the Philippines. Atty. Maria Kristina Conti is a prominent human rights lawyer, Secretary-General of the National Union of Peoples\u2019 Lawyers-National Capital Region (NUPL-NCR), and Treasurer of the Confederation of Lawyers of Asia [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17102,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/protect-lawyers.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/protect-lawyers.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/protect-lawyers.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/protect-lawyers.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/protect-lawyers.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22757"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/protect-lawyers.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22766,"href":"https:\/\/protect-lawyers.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22757\/revisions\/22766"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/protect-lawyers.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/protect-lawyers.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/protect-lawyers.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/protect-lawyers.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}