Philstar.com January 16, 2023 | MANILA, Philippines (Updated 11:37 a.m.) — Baguio City Mayor Benjamin Magalong issued Monday a thinly-veiled threat of legal action against red-taggers as he was once again baselessly accused of being part of the armed underground communist insurgency. Magalong directed his warning to controversial preacher Apollo Quiboloy, former anti-communist task force…
Kaycee Valmonte – Philstar.com September 22, 2022 MANILA, Philippines (Updated 3:02 p.m.) — In dismissing the Department of Justice’s proscription petition against the Communist Party of the Philippines-New People’s Army, the Manila court warned against the dangers of red-tagging groups or activists that are simply airing concerns on their specific advocacies or to how the government is…
Philippine Daily Inquirer /June 28, 2022 Have all those fears about the anti-terrorism law being used to go after government critics and stifle legitimate dissent finally come to pass? It would appear so, following the outgoing administration’s last-ditch move to block internet access to groups it had accused of being communist fronts or terrorist groups….
At the very least, red-tagging, by design, aims to keep people from speaking out against injustice
By: Dempsey Reyes – Reporter / Philippine Daily Inquirer /April 14, 2022 MANILA, Philippines — The mother of Ana Patricia “Patreng” Non, who put up the Maginhawa community pantry, has filed a complaint against Lorraine Badoy, the controversial spokesperson of the government’s anticommunist task force, for red-tagging her daughter and committing “mental and psychological” torture….
By: Kurt Dela Peña – Content Researcher Writer / March 24, 2022, Inquirer.net MANILA, Philippines—While Lorraine Badoy said that red-tagging is not dangerous, at least 427 activists—slain after they were red-tagged—could show otherwise, according to the human rights group Karapatan, which itself had been red-tagged. The “Danger in Dissent: Counterterrorism and Human Rights in the…
By: Vincent Cabreza – Reporter / Philippine Daily Inquirer /March 23, 2022 BAGUIO CITY—Youth activists here have rallied behind Mayor Benjamin Magalong who promised to shield them from Red-tagging after he was accused by a government task force of “protecting communist rebels.” Magalong had directed the police to take down tarpaulins and other materials put…
By: Dempsey Reyes – Reporter / Philipine Daily Inquirer / March 23, 2022 MANILA, Philippines — For linking presidential candidate and Vice President Leni Robredo with the communist movement, three separate complaints have been filed on Wednesday against Lorraine Badoy, one of the spokespersons of the government’s National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed…