Philippines: two environmental defenders charged with terrorism
Event- Country
- Philippines
- Initial Date
- Apr 8, 2024
- Event Description
Rights activists and environmentalists have expressed dismay over slapping terror charges on two Filipino activists, terming it an example of muzzling dissent and crackdown on rights-based activism in the country.
Fritz Jay Labiano and Adrian Paul Tagle have been charged with violating the Terrorism Financing Prevention and Suppression Act of 2012, media reports say.
Labiano is the coordinator of the rights group Kabataan Partylist in Quezon province, and Tagle is the coordinator of Tanggol Quezon, an advocacy group. If convicted, they face life imprisonment.
- Impact of Event
- 2
- Gender of HRD
- Man
- Violation
- Judicial Harassment
- Rights Concerned
- Right to healthy and safe environment
- Right to work
- HRD
- Environmental rights defender
- Youth
- Perpetrator-State
- Armed forces/ Military
- Source
- Monitoring Status
- Pending
- Event Location
Latitude: 13.936060253702914
Longitude: 121.61305256800908
- Event Location
- Summary for Publications
On 8 April 2024, Fritz Jay Labiano and Adrian Paul Tagle, youth EHRDs, charged with violating the Terrorism Financing Prevention and Suppression Act by the military for assisting detained fellow activists victims of red-tagging in Quezon Province, the Philippines.