Clamor said the attempts to discredit human rights defenders and progressive organisations aim to prevent them from pursuing justice for the victims of rights violations.
Rights defenders decry red tagging as form of rights violation
Tags: Red tagging
NUJP urges state forces to give protection to red-tagged journos
“The government’s view is: if you don’t want to be red-tagged then you need to condemn certain parties, which isn’t what a journalist does.”
Cops surveil rights advocate in Bukidnon
“State forces in Mindanao are intensifying attacks against civilians in Northern Mindanao as Martial Law continues to be in place in the whole island.”
Human rights lawyers to SC: ‘How many more lives, your Honor?’
At least 40 lawyers have been killed under President Duterte alone according to the NUPL.
Rights groups ask SC to overturn CA’s denial of plea for protection
“We maintain that our petition is urgent amid the spate of intensified red-tagging, illegal arrests, and killings perpetrated against us by this government.”
Parlade, other respondents no show at CA hearing on lawyers’ plea for protection
“From Day 1, the respondents only issued general denials, resorting to technicalities instead of answering our petition.”
UP acad union decries death threats, profiling vs members
“The Union seeks to be militante, progresibo, and makabayan to serve better its constituents yet this is dangerous, subversive, and inimical to the state in the eyes of the PNP hierarchy.”
‘Esperon’s complaint deflects on more fundamental matters’ – Karapatan
“National Security Adviser Hermogenes Esperon Jr.’s actions show that this government is indeed hell-bent on silencing its critics using the entire extent of its resources and through deliberately magnifying technicalities to veer the conversation away from the core issue of state-sponsored attacks by the Duterte government. ”
Another activist killed, 10 others arrested in Negros
“As the Duterte regime continuously intensifies its attacks, the killings and arbitrary arrests in Negros is setting a very dangerous precedence – that State forces can do whatever they want against poor peasants and communities, and brazenly promote tyranny and violence.”
Academic unfreedom and states of repression: On the case of Leloy Claudio
Dr. Claudio’s commentary, accusing his colleagues as well as students and activists of being “commies” are hardly statements to be glibly made or easily dismissed. Within the context of increasing state repression and concomitantly the erosion of academic freedom on both sides of the Pacific, the targets of Dr. Claudio’s work are put directly into the crosshairs of the Duterte and even the Trump regime. Dr. Claudio produces conditions of academic unfreedom for those he attacks.
An appeal for sobriety and prudence
he defense for Lisandro Claudio, PhD is an opportunistic reaction to a petition signed by 467 academics, artists and activists. The petition rightly argues that an academic who is engaged in tagging activist organizations as communist fronts is doing something unbecoming. It correctly articulates the global and local contexts in which such disposition is lamentable at the very least.