10 feeding program volunteers released

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10 feeding program volunteers released

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The volunteers – 7 jeepney drivers, two teachers, and one community volunteer with Gabriela – are released a day after they were arrested while serving free meals in Marikina City on Labor Day

MANILA, Philippines – The 10 volunteers of a community kitchen feeding program who were arrested while serving free meals in Marikina City were released on Saturday, May 2.

Jang Monte Hernandez, Secretary-General of the Gabriela Women’s Party, announced the release of the volunteers on Twitter.

The police earlier said that they arrested the members of the informal volunteer group Bayanihang Marikenyo at Marikenya – 7 jeepney drivers, two teachers, and one community volunteer with Gabriela – on Friday morning, May 1, for allegedly holding a protest because they carried placards.

On the same day, Marikina City Mayor Marcy Teodoro ordered the police to release the volunteers and said the cops had “overreacted” since did not do anything unlawful, and that the volunteers held placards that just called for mass testing for the coronavirus. – Rappler.com

 

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