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He added that these former NPA members risked their lives and their families for coming up with their exposè during the Senate hearing where they all took an oath, to tell the truth. (PNA file photo)
MANILA – A ranking official of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF ELCAC) lambasted the pronouncements of Free Legal Assistance Group (FLAG) chairperson Chel Diokno that President Rodrigo R. Duterte’s persistent red-tagging claims against Bayan Muna Party-list Rep. Carlos Isagani Zarate are “baseless and malicious”.
In a statement forwarded to the Philippine News Agency (PNA) Friday, Southern Luzon Command (SOLCOM) chief, Lt. Gen. Antonio Parlade, Jr., said FLAG and Diokno did not pay attention to the testimonies of former rebels in the Senate hearing who consistently identified party-list members as affiliates and allies of the Communist Party of the Philippines-New People’s Army (CPP-NPA).
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Yearender 2020 | Rights activists, truth-tellers living in precarious times
December 11, 2020
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL
MANILA – Human rights defenders in the Philippines are facing the worst of times.
This is evident in the recent report of international rights monitor Civicus, which reclassified the civic space in the Philippines from “obstructed” to “repressed.”
According to Civicus, top violations include detention of protesters, censorship and attacks on journalists. Freedoms of speech, association and peaceful assembly have also deteriorated during the pandemic, the report said.
“This is after the literal blow by blow attack on civil societies exercise of basic rights and fundamental freedoms this 2020,” Karapatan Secretary General Cristina Palabay said during a webinar on Dec. 8 entitled Human Rights Emerge