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Another Palawan community leader slapped with 2006 illegal fishing charge

Summary by Bulatlat
MANILA – The arrest of Oscar “Ondo” Pelayo, a 64-year old community leader in Sitio Marihangin, Bugsuk, Palawan, is an “attempt to silence the Molbog, Palaw’an, and Cagayanen indigenous peoples, alongside non-indigenous farmers and fisherfolks who have resisted corporate land and sea-grabbing in their ancestral domain,” said a farmers’ group. On May 17, Pelayo was arrested due to an “illegal fishing” charge in 2006. Pelayo’s son is the community…
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Bulatlat broke the news in on Thursday, May 22, 2025.
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