From GMA News Online (May 13, 2021): My husband is not a terrorist, says Vic Ladlad wife (By MA. ANGELICA GARCIA)
Kapatid spokesperson Fides Lim, wife of peace consultant Vicente Ladlad, on Thursday said her husband is not a terrorist nor a criminal, citing his long record of activism.
"My husband Vicente Ladlad is not a terrorist or a criminal. His long record of activism, which includes political imprisonment for standing up for country and people, is an open book," Lim said in a statement.
"I shall use all legal remedies available to defend his innocence, even if they may seem illusory and ineffective under the current dispensation," she added.
She said Ladlad's designation as terrorist by the Anti-Terrorism Council is a "star chamber decision."
"Google refers to the term 'star chamber' pejoratively as any secret or closed meeting held by a judicial or executive body, or to a court proceeding that seems grossly unfair or that is used to persecute an individual," Lim said.
"That is the very essence of the resolution that maliciously jumps the gun on the ongoing Supreme Court deliberations in order to sideswipe the final determination of the patent unconstitutionality of the Anti-Terrorism Act," she added.
Further, Lim appealed to the Commission of Human Rights and the International Committee of the Red Cross to regularly check on the condition of Ladlad, Rey Claro Casambre, and Adelberto Silva, all of whom are political prisoners, to ensure their safety and security inside jail.
"I have reason to fear for their lives because seven consultants of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines have already been murdered within the last two years," Lim said.
She also called on the government to not endanger the safety of her family and their lawyers or impede them from providing support as Ladlad is already "old and very sick."
Earlier, the ATC designated 19 alleged ranking members of the Communist Party of the Philippines and 10 members of "local terrorist groups," as terrorists.
Aside from Ladlad, Casambre, and Silva, also included in the list are self-exiled communist leader Jose Maria Sison and his wife Julieta, Jorge Madlos, Rafael Baylosis, and Wilma and Benito Tiamzon.
Ten members of "local terrorist groups" such as the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters, the Abu Sayyaf Group and the Daulah Islamiyah were also designated by the ATC as terrorists.—LDF, GMA News
https://www.gmanetwork.com/news/news/nation/787378/my-husband-is-not-a-terrorist-says-vic-ladlad-wife/story/
So says the head of CPP human rights front group whose husband is an admitted member of an organization, the National Democratic Front to which two designated terrorist organizations, the Communist Party of the Philippines and the New People's Army, belong.
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