Baguio city council hits terrorist designation on 4 Cordillera activists
Baguio city council hits terrorist designation on 4 Cordillera activists
October 3, 2023
By Sherwin De Vera
The council’s resolution calls state forces’ tendency to file baseless complaints against human rights defenders ‘a strategy of harassment’
BAGUIO CITY, Philippines – The city council of the Cordillera Administrative Region’s major local government unit urged the Anti-Terrorism Council on Monday, October 2 to drop its terrorist designation on four local indigenous rights defenders who had previously won acquittals against cases filed by the Armed Forces and the Philippine National Police (PNP).
The council passed without opposition a resolution that said the Anti-Terrorism Council’s deprived Sarah Abellon Alikes, Jennifer R. Awingan, Windel Balag-ey Bolinget, and Stephen Ambucay Tauli the opportunity to refute the claims behind the designation.
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