MANILA, Philippines — Why not just file a libel case?
Senate President Vicente Sotto III made this suggestion during a Senate hearing on Tuesday amid proposals to criminalize red-tagging.
“I’ve heard it thrice already from this morning up to now, from the CHR (Commission on Human Rights) also, that we should study, or we should criminalize red-tagging. I think, why don’t you just file a libel case?” Sotto said at the resumption of the Senate inquiry into the alleged red-tagging by military officials.
“Because if we criminalize red-tagging, we have to criminalize narcissistic-tagging and fascist-tagging samantalang [while] it falls in the category of libel,” he added.
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