OFWs take on the fight for the “ST 72″

Middle East-based overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) has recently launched a petition denouncing the Arroyo regime’s continuing persecution of political dissenters as evidenced in the arbitrary arrest of 72 political activists in the Southern Tagalog region.
Initiated by Migrante Middle East, the petition read in part, thus:
We oppose and will act against the tyrannical hand of Arroyo [...]