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Dismissed cases: A look at the invalid search warrants vs red-tagged activists
MANILA Several criminal cases filed against progressives have been dismissed as local courts found the evidence inadmissible.
Bulatlat looks into the five of these cases, where charges of illegal possession of firearms and explosives sprung from the enforcement of search warrants issued by so-called warrant factories.
Among the most recent was a Capiz court deciding that a search warrant used in the ‘Bloody December’ raid – issued by a co-equal trial court hundreds of kilometers away – was invalid.
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Truth-tagging? | Courts junk cases vs red-tagged activists, peace consultants
Ironically, cases against red-tagged individuals are being dismissed by government courts for lack of probable cause or because of insufficient evidence. Motions to quash search warrants were also granted by the courts, declaring whatever so-called evidence the police have acquired during the search as inadmissible.
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL
MANILA – During the oral arguments on the Anti-Terror Act at the Supreme Court, government lawyers and National Security Adviser Hermogenes Esperon Jr. insisted that red-tagging is not a policy of the government.
“Simply put, the AFP and Philippine National Police (PNP) had no solid, intelligent basis before launching massive operations in a rural sitio in Nasugbu, Batangas in April 2020."