MANILA, Philippines — Eight senators on Tuesday urged the law enforcement leadership to probe the profiling and red-tagging of community pantry organizers as they called for an end to the “harassment and intimidation” against those involved in such relief efforts.
In a joint statement, Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto, Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon and Senators Nancy Binay, Leila de Lima, Sherwin Gatchalian, Francis Pangilinan and Grace Poe condemned and called for an end to the red-tagging of organizers of community pantries, which started popping up in various parts of the country.
“The profiling of organizers must stop. It puts people’s lives in danger, kn…
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