“Her abduction, on Human Rights Day no less, is another proof of the dangers of the administration’s vile practice of red-tagging.”
Arrest of journalist proves anew the dangers of red-tagging – media groups
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On International Human Rights Day, one journalist, 6 activists arrested in separate raids
Teddy Casiño of Bayan said the Duterte administration is the “number one human rights violator.”
Progressive lawyers push back, file charges against red-taggers
“The complainants bring the instant action in order to finally address a continuing wrong, to vindicate their basic rights, and to remind public officials that illegal, improper, unjust and oppressive acts and utterances, especially those vicious and virulent, are not without consequence. We also just want to do our work as lawyers,” the complaint read.
We will not be muzzled
The red-taggers’ mantra “If you are not with us, you are against us” is so skewed and illogical. The media’s role is to serve as a watchdog of wrongdoings especially by those in power.
Rights group sues red-taggers
The complaint said the red-tagging of Cristina Palabay, Karapatan and its members and officers by the respondents violates the principle of distinction under international and domestic humanitarian law.
Red-tagging, prelude to Terror Law implementation – Makabayan bloc
For the Makabayan bloc and other progressive organizations, the recently concluded Senate hearing on red-tagging will be used by state security forces as a justification to declare them as terrorists under the Anti-Terror Law.
Continuation of peace talks, not red-tagging, key to achieving peace – advocates
Advocacy group Pilgrims for Peace declared that the state’s penchant for red and terror-tagging “not only further exacerbates the human rights crisis in the Philippines, but it worrisomely undermines peace efforts.”
Who’s fooling whom in anti-Left task force?
President Duterte’s people need to get their act together and stop this game of putting innocent people’s lives and security at stake.
Senate hearing on red-tagging ill-timed amid pandemic, calamity, groups say
As the nation reels from the destruction of the typhoon and continued socio-economic impacts of the pandemic, Karapatan said that the hearing is not only ill-timed but “a foreboding of the things to come when the Anti-Terrorism Act is fully implemented.”
Balik-Tanaw | No hypocrites allowed
The hypocrites in government malign the work of organizers, humanitarian workers, and human rights defenders, vilifying and tagging them as enemies of the state and terrorists. They persecute many who truly work for the betterment of our society.
Pushback slows down red-tagging spree
It seems that time is up for reckoning on the crude, arrogant and irresponsible red-tagging campaign, waged mainly by the military and police at the behest of the National Task Force to End the Local Communist Armed Confict or NTF-ELCAC. Created and nominally headed by President Duterte, the task force is overseen by his national…