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Sen. Drilon wants 10-year imprisonment for red-tagging

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Sherrie Ann Torres, ABS-CBN News

<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2019/news/05/31/20190531-health-workers-red-tagging-jc-2.jpg"/><figcaption>Health workers and advocates hold a protest against the alleged worsening attacks, red-tagging, and smear campaigns against health professionals, outside the Department of National Defense (DND) headquarters in Quezon City on May 31, 2019.<em> Jire Carreon, ABS-CBN News/file</em></figcaption></figure></div><p>MANILA<strong> (UPDATE)</strong> - Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon has filed a measure that seeks a 10-year imprisonment for any state agent who would be convicted of “red-tagging.”</p><p>Under Senate Bill 2121 or the proposed “Act Defining and Penalizing Red-tagging” that Drilon filed on Wednesday, the convict will also be disqualified from holding any public office.</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/03/17/21/sc-urged-to-act-on-red-baiting-of-lawyers-judge-gets-red-tagged">SC urged to act on red-baiting of lawyers; judge gets red-tagged</a></li></ul><p>“The passage of this bill will reverse the ‘increasingly institutionalization and normalization of human rights violations’ and put a stop on the attacks against the members of the legal profession,” Drilon said in the bill’s explanatory note.</p><p>“The measure will likewise serve as a reminder to the government of its primary duty under the Constitution to serve and protect the people,” he added.</p><p>The bill classifies red-tagging as “labeling, vilifying, branding, naming, accusing, harassing, persecuting, stereotyping, or caricaturing individuals, groups, or organizations as state enemies, left-leaning, subversives, communists, or terrorists as part of a counter-insurgency or anti-terrorism strategy or program, by any state actor, such as law enforcement agent, paramilitary, or military personnel.”</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/03/03/21/should-red-tagging-be-criminalized-some-senators-say-definition-must-be-settled-first">Should red-tagging be criminalized? Some senators say definition must be settled first</a></li></ul><p>Drilon said a statute of this kind is needed since libel and grave threats charges are not appropriate when a state agent is affecting an individual’s basic rights.</p><p>“It has resulted in serious human rights violations such as harassments, arbitrary arrests, detentions, and enforced disappearances… In some instances, being red-tagged is a prelude to death,” he said.</p><figure class="op-interactive"><iframe allow="autoplay; fullscreen" frameBorder="0" height="100%" id="ivsplayer01" scrolling="no" src="https://player.ivideosmart.com/ivsplayer/v4/dist/html/iframe-src.html?iframeid=ivsplayer01&amp;key=e8c22c015ca9eafa76f1e3edfa03c603&amp;spid=3001339&amp;vid=1647568" width="100%"></iframe></figure><div class="iwantbar">Watch more in <a href="//www.iwantv.com.ph/">iWantv</a> or <a href="//tfc.tv/">TFC.tv</a></div><p>Drilon and other members of the Senate earlier filed and adopted Senate Resolution 691 which strongly condemns the “killing of and acts of violence against judges, prosecutors and lawyers.”</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/03/25/21/korte-suprema-senado-kinondena-ang-mga-pagpatay-sa-mga-abogado">Korte Suprema, Senado kinondena ang mga pagpatay sa mga abogado</a></li></ul><figure class="op-interactive"><iframe allow="autoplay; fullscreen" frameBorder="0" height="100%" id="ivsplayer01" scrolling="no" src="https://player.ivideosmart.com/ivsplayer/v4/dist/html/iframe-src.html?iframeid=ivsplayer01&amp;key=e8c22c015ca9eafa76f1e3edfa03c603&amp;spid=3001339&amp;vid=1647304" width="100%"></iframe></figure><div class="iwantbar">Watch more in <a href="//www.iwantv.com.ph/">iWantv</a> or <a href="//tfc.tv/">TFC.tv</a></div>

<p>MANILA (UPDATE) - Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon has filed a measure that seeks a 10-year imprisonment for any state agent who would be convicted of “red-tagging.”</p>

MANILA (UPDATE) - Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon has filed a measure that seeks a 10-year imprisonment for any state agent who would be convicted of “red-tagging.”

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Sen. Drilon wants 10-year imprisonment for red-tagging

Sherrie Ann Torres,

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Published Mar 25, 2021 02:16 PM PHT

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Updated Mar 25, 2021 07:21 PM PHT

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