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By ERWIN COLCOL, GMA News
Published April 7, 2021 3:31pm Senate President Vicente Sotto III on Wednesday said he is now inclined to support the measure seeking to criminalize red-tagging after the Senate employees union was accused of having links with communist rebels. In a text message to reporters, Sotto said that red-tagging of the Sandigan ng mga Empleyadong Nagkakaisa sa Adhikain ng Demokratikong Organisasyon (SENADO), a union of employees in the Senate, made him want to support Senate Bill 2121, or the proposed law defining and penalizing red-tagging. Because of this, I am now inclined to support the criminalizing of red-tagging, he said.
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Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, April 7) The Senate president is not taking lightly allegations that some Senate employees are sympathizers of rebel groups.
In a message to reporters on Wednesday, Senator Vicente Tito Sotto III described as unfounded a social media post by National Intelligence Coordinating Agency director general Alex Paul Monteagudo that said members of the Senate union, the Sandigan ng mga Empleyadong Nagkakaisa sa Adhikain ng Demokratikong Organisasyon (SENADO), were working as the eyes and ears of the CPP-NPA-NDF. He sent word saying they are just telling our people that the CPP has tentacles even in the halls of the Senate through COURAGE, a CTG organization. I said I want NICA to give me the names of the employees and I will have them investigated. But because of this, I am now inclined to support the criminalizing of red tagging, said Sotto.
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Published March 17, 2021, 1:48 PM
At least 200 academics from universities in the Philippines and abroad jointly signed a unity statement urging the Philippine government to stop the attacks on and killings of activists.
“As academics, we are duty-bound and morally obliged to stand against all infringements of basic human rights,” said Academics Unite for Democracy and Human Rights Lead Convener Ramon Guillermo in a statement issued Wednesday, March 17.
“Academic freedom cannot thrive in an environment of fear and intimidation, for it rests on teachers’ and students’ unhampered exercise of their rights and liberties,” Guillermo, who is also the lead petitioner in the 29th case in the Supreme Court against the Anti-Terrorism Law of 2020, added.