Mark Demayo, ABS-CBN News/File MANILA -- The Makabayan coalition on Tuesday welcomed the Commission on Elections’ (Comelec) ...

All fingers point to the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict, the Armed Forces of the Philippines, and ...

The National Union of Peoples’ Lawyers says that 133 lawyers have been killed in the Philippines since 1984, 59 of them over the past six years. A judge who dismissed a government petition to ...

MANILA, Philippines — Concerns were aired by groups after the government’s anticommunist task force, known for Red-tagging ...

Two years later, in 2023, it said its work to "increase capacity to address red-tagging" was "complete." The tech giant said it also briefed the Armed Forces of the Philippines in 2022 about its ...

Meta must stop red-tagging activities on Facebook so they can provide space for their users, the young people, to speak up for their rights,' Amnesty International Philippines' Mia Tonogbanua says ...

not just in the Philippines, that protesting is blatantly criminalized." Red-tagging crops up as the government's main strategy to discredit young activists and other critics, and contrary to the ...

Lawmakers hinted that the next hearings could delve into the use of Oplan Sauron, an anti-insurgency program focused in the central Philippines, to mask covert drug war killings. It’s the flip side of ...

Permission to kill' condemned in Duterte drug war Lives lived and lost along Manila's Pasig river The current intensification of red-tagging, which began in the Philippines in the mid-1950s ...

Red-tagging in the country has escalated since President Rodrigo Duterte’s administration, particularly after the breakdown of peace talks with the Communist Party of the Philippines in 2017.

Rights groups said the Indigenous people had been “red-tagged” after opposing a local dam project. It’s the latest in a string of high-profile police incidents. A new slate of arrests ...