Published March 17, 2021 6:05pm By JULIA MARI ORNEDO, GMA News The Commission on Human Rights (CHR) on Wednesday decried a tarpaulin linking Mandaluyong Regional Trial Court Branch 209 Judge Monique Quisumbing-Ignacio to communists over her order to release a detained journalist and trade unionist. “Such incriminating claims in the tarpaulin that links Judge Quisumbing-Ignacio to the Communist Party of the Philippines without any specific and verifiable evidence exposes her to grave danger,” CHR spokesperson Jacqueline de Guia said in a statement. Earlier this month, Judge Quisumbing-Ignacio ordered the release of journalist Lady Ann Salem and trade unionist Rodrigo Esparago, who were among those arrested in a controversial series of raids that supposedly yielded illegal firearms.
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Monique Quisumbing-Ignacio, an Atenean lawyer, was appointed judge in 2007, and for many years handled commercial and family disputes until late 2020, when a political case of two activists was raffled to her court, throwing her straight into the lion s den.
On Tuesday, March 16, a tarpaulin linking her to communists was unfurled along the busy EDSA thoroughfare in Mandaluyong, her turf.
Simply put, she was red-tagged, heightening concerns from across sectors because this would be the first time a member of the judiciary has been red-tagged this way under the Duterte administration.
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Groups condemn red-tagging of judge who freed journo, labor organizer
By EMILY VITAL
MANILA – Lawyers and colleagues of journalist Lady Ann Salem condemned the red-tagging of Judge Monique Quisumbing-Ignacio who junked the charges against Salem and labor organizer Rodrigo Esparago.
Several tarpaulins bearing the logos of the Communist Party of the Philippines, New People’s Army and National Democratic Front of the Philippines cropped up in Mandaluyong and other parts of the metro thanking the judge for the dismissal of the cases against Salem and Esparago.
After freeing activists, Mandaluyong judge gets red-tagged in an EDSA tarp
Mar 16, 2021 11:00 PM PHT
After freeing two activists and clearing them of charges, a Mandaluyong judge was red-tagged in a tarpaulin along the busy EDSA thoroughfare in Shaw.
Photos showed a tarpaulin thanking Mandaluyong Regional Trial Court (RTC) Branch 209 Judge Monique Quisumbing-Ignacio for her quick action in freeing
mga kasama (our comrades). The logo of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) appeared on the tarpaulin. Hindi natin alam kung sino ang naglagay, pero alam naman natin sino ang mahilig ngayon sa tarpaulin. At kung sino ang mahilig sa ganyang tarpaulin na hayagang nangre-redtag, Bayan Muna Representative Ferdinand Gaite told Rappler.
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Rights defenders score another victory against ‘copy-paste’ search warrants
By RONALYN V. OLEA
MANILA – For the third time, another local court invalidated the search warrants used to arrest human rights defenders.
In a decision dated Feb. 18, Judge Ana Celeste P. Bernad of Bacolod City Regional Trial Court Branch 42 granted the motions to quash search warrants and suppress evidence filed by Karina Mae De La Cerna, Cherryl Catalogo, and John Milton Lozande.
The accused were all arrested in Bacolod City on October 31, 2019 by virtue of search warrants issued by Judge Cecilyn Burgos-Villavert of RTC Quezon City. They were charged with illegal possession of firearms and explosives.