1. Rizalina Ilagan was abducted by state security agents and disappeared on July 31,1977, at the Makati Medical Center in Metro Manila, with nine other activists in what is believed to be the single biggest case of involuntary disappearance during Ferdinand Marcos' martial law in the Philippines.
Rizalina Ilagan is one of the heroes honored on the University of the Philippines Los Banos 'Hagdan ng Malayang Kamalayan' memorial.
Rizalina Ilagan directed plays in high school and wrote for the school paper.
Rizalina Ilagan attended conferences held by youth organizations, such as the Future Farmers of the Philippines.
Rizalina Ilagan became an activist and joined the local chapter of the militant youth group Kabataang Makabayan in her senior year in high school.
Rizalina Ilagan entered the University of the Philippines in Los Banos and became active in the theater group Tambuli under director Leo Rimando.
Rizalina Ilagan became the Southern Tagalog coordinator of KM's Panday Sining theater organization, which staged plays depicting the problems of Philippine society.
Rizalina Ilagan left the university when martial law was declared in 1972 and worked full-time organizing communities in the underground resistance to the dictatorship.
Rizalina Ilagan worked as a staff member for an underground newsletter in Southern Tagalog.
Rizalina Ilagan is recognized as a martyr and hero of martial law and her name has been inscribed on the Bantayog ng mga Bayani Wall of Remembrance.