Philippines: several NGOs victim of online red-tagging
Event- Country
- Philippines
- Initial Date
- Apr 30, 2020
- Event Description
On 30 April 2020, the 303rd Infantry Brigade of the Philippine Army, based in Murcia, Province of Negros Occidental published a post on its Facebook profile where it falsely links at least five human rights organisations with communist groups, and thus redtagging them and labelling them as affiliated with terrorists.
- Impact of Event
- 5
- Gender of HRD
- Other (e.g. undefined, organisation, community)
- Violation
- Intimidation and Threats
- Online Attack and Harassment
- Vilification
- Rights Concerned
- Freedom of association
- Right to protect reputation
- HRD
- NGO
- Perpetrator-State
- Armed forces/ Military
- Source
- Monitoring Status
- Active
- Event Location
Latitude: 10.009411864241756
Longitude: 122.9858318755942
- Event Location
- Summary for Publications
On 30 April 2020, at least five were NGOs victim of online red-tagging by the 303rd Infantry Brigade of the Philippine Army in Murcia, the Philippines.
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