ALERT! | SURVEILLANCE, RED-TAGGING FLYERS DISTRIBUTED BY ELEMENTS OF THE NTF-ELCAC WITHIN COURT PREMISES AS COURT HEARING VS CPA LEADERS AND MEMBERS’ TERRORIST DESIGNATION IS ONGOING
March 8, 2024
Alleged members of a certain Nagkakaisang Samahan para sa Kapayapaan at Kaunlaran (NSKK), were confronted for distributing flyers maligning the Cordillera Peoples Alliance side-by-side with anti-communist flyers in front of the Baguio Justice Hall.
According to at least 4 women our team has talked to, the flyers came from the “ELCAC”. They were handed the flyers for distribution in exchange of a por dia of Php500.00 (“por dia”; translation: per day pay). Notably, it was also conducted with today’s commemoration of the International Working Women’s Day.
Moreover, a man, Jade Torres Flores, took videos of the support group, Petitioners and Lawyers along the hearing venue was apprehended. He attempted to run away to Camp Allen, causing a brief chase. After being caught, he admitted that he is an a member of the Armed Forces of the Philippines under the Civil Relations Service.
This brazen act of red-tagging, terrorist-labelling, and surveillance is precisely why the Writ of Preliminary Injunction is being filed and is urgently needed. False and malicious accusations such as this is dangerous; putting the petitioners in more danger that infringes their basic rights.
We condemn this another incident of harassment done by state forces and its elements within the premises of the Court itself aimed to malign the ongoing Petition, the Petitioners, human rights Lawyers and their supporters. We take exception to ELCAC taking advantage of poverty and our kakailian’s dire need for daily financial sustenance for their evil and illegal act of red-tagging, harassment and intimidation.
Uphold Judicial Independence!
Repeal ATA of 2020!
Junk Terror Laws!