Release Youth Community Leader Chantal Anicoche from the Custody of the Armed Forces of the Philippines

Chantal Anicoche.

On January 1, the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) conducted aerial bombing and strafing of the indigenous Mangyan-Iraya community in Occidental Mindoro. During the attacks, three Mangyan children and two youth researchers—one of whom was Kabataan Partylist Leader Jerlyn Rose Doydora—were killed, while 188 families were forcibly displaced from the area.

At the same time, Chantal Anicoche, a 24-year-old Filipino-American youth community leader from Baltimore...