At least eight persons convicted of various grave crimes but were released under the Good Conduct Time Allowance (GCTA) law in Northern Mindanao turned themselves in to authorities, the Philippine National Police-10 (PNP-10) said Tuesday.
The Catholic archbishop here, along with lawyers and journalists, are willing to take to the streets to express their indignation over the red-tagging among their colleagues.
The City Council has formed a technical working group to craft an ordinance to protect personalities in the city whose lives are endangered after being red-tagged.
The Philippine Army’s 4th Infantry Division denied during a dialogue with journalists Wednesday that they were behind the red-tagging of two journalists.
The Department of Social Welfare and Development-10 (DSWD-10) has confirmed that one of the two women arrested for illegal drugs during separate raids inside their homes in Sitio Balongis, Barangay Balulang, this city, on Wednesday (Sept. 4) is a beneficiary of the agency’s conditional cash transfer program.