MANILA, Philippines — Passing a measure that would criminalize red-tagging will be a “tall order” in the Senate, Senator Panfilo Lacson said Monday.
Lacson, who led a Senate inquiry into alleged red-tagging by military officials as chair of the chamber’s defense committee, earlier said he is “seriously” considering proposals to make red-tagging a crime but believes he will not get a lot of support from his fellow senators.
“I took the inputs of at least two legal luminaries, [lawyer and professor] Tony La Vina and [Commission on Human Rights] Commissioner [Karen] Gomez-Dumpit. You cannot just disregard their inputs because according to them, red-tagging may be criminalized be…
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