By ALYSSA MAE CLARINBulatlat.com MANILA — Media organizations called on the Kapisanan ng mga Broadkaster ng Pilipinas (KBP) to look into the recent red-tagging of National Union of Journalists of the Philippines’ (NUJP) chairperson, Jonathan de Santos, and its leadership. “The rampant and unabated red-tagging on live television has to stop,” NUJP’s Philstar.com chapter said.…
“It is not only untrue, it also perpetuates the dangerous narrative that journalists are communists or rebel sympathizers for reporting that (which) does not parrot what the government says. It (is) also the kind of labeling that has raised concerns over how the Anti-Terrorism Act will be implemented.”
“No journalist should be threatened for doing their jobs in delivering news and information to communities. We reiterate our call to defend press freedom and stop the attacks against the Filipino press.”
“Had Parlade also done his research and listened to the oral arguments, he would have known that posts like these are what petitioners claim as evidence of a credible threat of prosecution – threat that can warrant a judicial review of the law he seeks to protect and promote.”
According to news report, the CIDG said that Valle’s arrest was a case of mistaken identity.
Even though it was hailed by various sectors in society as historic and unprecedented, human rights advocates doubted if the human rights summit initiated by the Supreme Court would be enough to curb the festering problems of extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearances. BY DABET CASTAÑEDA Bulatlat HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH Vol. VII, No. 24, July 22-28,…