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Philippine martial law collection

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: 4288

Scope and content

Memoranda, reports, trial transcripts, and other documents relating to the declaration of martial law in the Philippines in 1972, especially Supreme Court decisions about the continuance of martial law, accounts of detainees, and accounts of abuses. Included are files on the trial of Benigno S. Aquino. Also, general research files and drafts of Butler's report for the International Commission of Jurists.

Dates

[ca. 1974-1977]

Creator

Butler, William Jack, 1919- (Person)
Humphrey, John P. (Person)

Biographical / Historical

Lawyer. William J. Butler was United Nations representative of the International Commission of Jurists (IJC), Vice President of the American Association for the IJC, Chairman of the Committee on International Human Rights of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, and Counsel to The International League for the Rights of Man, Inc.