MANILA, Philippines — Some lawmakers from across Southeast Asia have called on the Philippine government to refrain from red-tagging opposition legislators, noting that it puts people’s lives at risk for merely speaking out.
In a statement on Thursday, the ASEAN Parliamentarians for Human Rights (APHR) said that red-tagging, or linking people to communism or communist rebels, have grave consequences in the Philippines as red-tagged individuals are either maligned or worse, killed.
APHR was referring to the continuous red-tagging that Makabayan bloc and its member, Bayan Muna Rep. Carlos Zarate gets from the government, particularly President Rodrigo Duterte himself and the Nation…
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