Criminalize red-tagging, activists reiterate
Criminalize red-tagging, activists reiterate
Lean Porquia, son of Jory Porquia, a Bayan Muna Party-list leader killed in Iloilo.
(Photo: Carlo Manalansan/Bulatlat)
By Anne Marxze D. Umil
Bulatlat.com
MANILA – Red-tagging will continue as long as red-taggers, like former spokesperson of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) Lorraine Badoy, remain free, and are not held accountable.
This is why for Lean Porquia, red-tagging should be criminalized.
“Red-tagging is a desperate recourse to silence dissent, regardless if you’re an activist, professional, community worker, student, as long you criticize government and its policies, the government’s security cluster is out to monitor, surveillance, harass, threaten, or worse, arrest, kill, or abduct you,” Porquia told Bulatlat in an online interview.
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