DEPARTMENT of Social Welfare and Development-Davao Region (DSWD-Davao) Director Atty. Vanessa B. Goc-ong discussed the ongoing efforts of the agency in mitigating potential communist indoctrinations by some leftist organizations disguised as charitable institutions visiting the evacuation centers in Davao de Oro. These evacuation centers house victims of the recent Masara landslide incident.
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Supreme Court (SC)
(MANILA BULLETIN)
In a letter to Chief Justice Diosdado M. Peralta and the 14 other justices, Dean Edgardo Carlo Vistan II of the University of the Philippines College of Law cited not only the assaults and killings of lawyers but also their red-tagging.
Vistan also told the SC of the attempt of a police officer to get from a trial court a list of lawyers representing suspected members of the Communist Terror Group (CTG).
Several lawyers’ groups have said that more than 60 lawyers, including prosecutors and judiciary members, have been killed since 2016.
Vistan suggested the creation and convening of a Special Committee to Protect Lawyers which will be headed by a senior SC justice with representatives from the trial courts, the Integrated Bar of the Philippines, lawyers’ networks, and the legal academe.