CHR chair Chito Gascon dies of COVID-19
Commission on Human Rights Chairman Chito Gascon, 57-years-old, has died of COVID-19, his brother declared on Saturday.
“Sa dami mong laban, sa COVID pa tayo na talo! Love you Kuya! RIP Chito Gascon,” his brother Miguel Gascon wrote in a Facebook post.
[Translation: Of all the many battles you have fought, you lost to COVID. Love you, big brother! RIP, Chito Gascon.]
Gascon had served the CHR for six years. Before leading the CHR, he was a member of the Human Rights Victims Claims Board, the body assigned to receive, evaluate, and investigate compensation claims made by victims of human rights violations during the Martial Law.
The human rights lawyer and political activist who was also the youngest member of the Constitutional Commission that drafted the 1987 Constitution, a...