{"id":9434,"date":"2024-05-17T01:00:26","date_gmt":"2024-05-17T00:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amp.ngo\/?p=9434"},"modified":"2024-05-16T11:19:57","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T10:19:57","slug":"supreme-court-recognizes-red-tagging-as-a-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amp.ngo\/en\/supreme-court-recognizes-red-tagging-as-a-threat\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court recognizes \u201cred-tagging\u201d as a threat"},"content":{"rendered":"

On May 8, 2024, the Supreme Court (SC) issued<\/a> a landmark ruling declaring so-called \u201cred-tagging\u201d (i.e., branding individuals or organizations as \u201cterrorist\u201d) as a \u201cthreat to a person’s right to life, liberty or security, which may justify the issuance of a writ of amparo.\u201d A writ of amparo allows a person to seek various remedies from the courts, such as protection orders.<\/p>\n

According to Human Rights Watch, the SC decision confirms<\/a> that \u201c\u2018red-tagging\u2019 is a dangerous form of harassment [and] recognizes the suffering of countless victims of this government policy.\u201d The Philippine Commission on Human Rights (CHR) emphasized<\/a> in a statement that the definition of \u201cred-tagging\u201d cited in the SC decision \u201creaffirms the subjective and arbitrary nature of the practice.\u201d According to CHR, this also recognizes<\/a> the \u201creal and immediate\u201d danger of \u201c\u2018red-tagging.\u201d<\/p>\n

The SC decision also granted<\/a> the petition of activist and former Bayan Muna representative Siegfred Deduro for a writ of amparo. Deduro stated that he felt threatened by the Philippine military because of his alleged<\/a> links to the communist armed rebel group New People’s Army (NPA). The original rejection of his writ of amparo in 2020 by a regional court was overturned by the SC ruling. The SC ordered<\/a> the trial court to retry of his case and come up with a verdict within 10 days.<\/p>\n

Since April 10, 2024, the labor organizer of the Kilusang Mayo Uno – Southern Mindanao Region William Lariosa from Bukidnon has been missing<\/a>. In a statement, the CHR condemned<\/a> Lariosa’s abduction and launched a quick response operation. According to eyewitness reports, the Philippine military is believed<\/a> to be linked to his disappearance.<\/p>\n

The Makabayan group in the House of Representatives condemned<\/a> on May 3, 2024, the allegations of the Philippine military against Bayan-Muna Secretary General Nathanael Santiago and 33 other activists in the province of Nueva Ecija for alleged involvement in a encountering of government security forces and an alleged terrorist group in Nueva Ecija 2023. The Makabayan group called<\/a> the allegations unfounded and an attempt to silence government critics.<\/p>\n

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Photo \u00a9 Raffy Lerma<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On May 8, 2024, the Supreme Court (SC) issued a landmark ruling declaring so-called \u201cred-tagging\u201d (i.e., branding individuals or organizations as \u201cterrorist\u201d) as a \u201cthreat to a person’s right to life, liberty or security, which may justify the issuance of a writ of amparo.\u201d A writ of amparo allows a person to seek various remedies […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":6746,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[73,63,58,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aktuelles-en","category-human-rights-defenders","category-human-rights-news","category-internal-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amp.ngo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amp.ngo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amp.ngo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amp.ngo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amp.ngo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9434"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/amp.ngo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9471,"href":"https:\/\/amp.ngo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9434\/revisions\/9471"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amp.ngo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amp.ngo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amp.ngo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amp.ngo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}