Satur Ocampo

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The Honorable
Satur Ocampo
Satur Ocampo (2024).jpg
Ocampo in 2024
Member of the
Philippine House of Representatives
for Bayan Muna party-list
In office
June 30, 2001 –June 30, 2010
Servingwith Crispin Beltran (2001–2003), Liza Maza (2001–2004), Joel Virador (2003–2007), Teodoro Casiño (2004–2010), & Neri Colmenares (2009–2010)
Personal details
Born
Saturnino Cunanan Ocampo

(1939-04-07) April 7, 1939 (age 85)
Santa Rita, Pampanga, Commonwealth of the Philippines
Political party Bayan Muna
Other political
affiliations		 Makabayan (2009–present)
National Democratic Front (1973–present)
SpouseCarolina Malay
ProfessionWriter, journalist

Saturnino "Satur" Cunanan Ocampo (born April 7, 1939) is a Filipino politician, activist, journalist, and writer. [1]

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As party president and first nominee, he led the party-list group Bayan Muna in three successful elections in 2001, 2004, and 2007. He was a member of the House of Representatives, and Deputy Minority Leader in the 14th Congress of the Philippines. He has done work in human rights and other areas.

After his three terms as representative, he ran for senator in the May 2010 elections; then-Representative Liza Maza of the women's partylist group GABRIELA and Ocampo were fielded by the Makabayan coalition and were included as guest senatorial candidates of the Nacionalista Party, a mainstream Philippine political party whose presidential standard bearer, Senator Manny Villar, they supported.

After the elections, on August 21, 2010, Ocampo started a weekly opinion column in the Philippine Star titled "At Ground Level".

Activism

Ocampo was a business editor of the pre-martial law Manila Times and was the founder of the Business and Economic Reporters Association of the Philippines. He is a lifetime member of the National Press Club.

President Ferdinand Marcos declared martial law on September 23, 1972, and Ocampo, among others, went underground. In 1973, Ocampo co-founded of the National Democratic Front (NDF), seeking to unite various anti-dictatorship forces.

In 1976, he was arrested and incarcerated as a political prisoner. For the next nine years he was severely tortured in various prison camps. At one point, he shared a cell with detained Philippine Collegian editor-in-chief Abraham Sarmiento, Jr. Though tried by a military court for rebellion, he was never found guilty. In 1985, while on pass to vote at the National Press Club annual elections, he escaped from the soldiers guarding him and rejoined the underground revolutionary movement. [2] At the time of his escape, Ocampo was the longest-held political prisoner in the country. [3]

After the dictatorship fell in 1986, President Corazon Aquino called for peace talks with the communists. Ocampo headed the peace negotiating panel of the NDF, which represents the Communist Party of the Philippines and the New People's Army. When the talks collapsed due to the killing of 18 farmers at a rally near the Malacañan Palace on January 22, 1987, Ocampo returned to the underground.

In 1989, he was rearrested together with his wife, Carolina Malay. [4] [5] Three years later in 1992, a year after his wife was released, he was freed. Neither was found guilty of any crime.

On November 28, 2018, Ocampo, Alliance of Concerned Teachers Rep. France Castro and over 70 others were arrested on allegations of kidnapping and human trafficking charges over the transport of Lumad minors from the town of Talaingod, Davao Del Norte. Ocampo's group was released after posting bail of PHP80,000.00 each. [6]

In July 2024, Tagum City Regional Trial Court Branch 2 Jimmy Bustillo Boco, in a 26-page judgment sentenced Ocampo, ACT-Teachers France Castro and 11 other convicts to an indeterminate penalty of 4 years to 6 years imprisonment, including P10,000 as civil indemnity and P10,000 as moral damages. [7] The accused known as “Talaingod 18” violated Section 10(a) of Republic Act 7610, for endangerment of 14 Lumad students of the Salugpongan Ta Tanu Ingkanogan Community Learning Center Inc. in Talaingod, Davao del Norte. [8]

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  1. ↑ "Philippines group seeks to bar strongman's son from election". Al Jazeera. Retrieved July 10, 2024.
  2. ↑ RP alarm for newsman [ permanent dead link ], The Manila Evening Post, May 7, 1985
  3. ↑ Reed, Jack (May 5, 1985). "Reporter jailed for nine years escapes". UPI. Retrieved July 29, 2021.
  4. ↑ Mydans, Seth (April 12, 2006). "Revolutionary couple stays in Philippine Congress the hard way". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved September 1, 2021.
  5. ↑ "Paula Carolina Malay's good fight". ph.news.yahoo.com. Retrieved September 1, 2021.
  6. ↑ LOOK: Satur Ocampo, lawmaker charged with kidnapping, human trafficking - ABS-CBN News
  7. ↑ Laqui, Ian (July 15, 2024). "Rep. France Castro, Satur Ocampo guilty of 'endangering minors' –court" . Retrieved July 15, 2024.
  8. ↑ Tejano, Ivy (July 15, 2024). "Tagum court convicts Rep. France Castro, Satur Ocampo of child abuse". Manila Bulletin . Retrieved July 15, 2024.
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