The recent weeks of arrest, espionage and harassment of military elements against progressive and activists in the Region of Negros, Bicol and Southern Tagalog have recorded in recent weeks.
In Negros Occidental, police arrested Pertinisa Jereula Charita, 55, while visiting her husband in jail in San Carlos City on February 13. According to human rights advocates Negros (Hran), police arrested Charit .
Charita, a member of the Brother-Negros and the National Federation of Sugar Workers (NFSW), was the wife of Leon Charita, who was arrested in September 2019 in a case of illegal possession of firearms and explosives. Pertinisa was with her children and grandchildren when she visited Leon to commemorate her birthday in jail.
In Albay, 9th ID soldiers have traveled and attacked the relatives of Farmer's Assistance for Resource Management, Education and Rehabilitation Incorporated (Farmer Inc) members Maggie Seva, its administrative official, and stap Fidel Mirando during the first part of February. The relatives of the two were subject to illegal interrogation.
In Rizal, an element of the 2nd ID in Barangay San Isidro, Antipolo City, Rizal was housed from the second week of February and in question of mass leaders of the progressive movement in Rizal. The soldier was civilized and pretended to be an employee of Antipolo City Hall to carry out the espionage. According to neighbors, the soldiers are taking them personal information and numbers in the Masa leaders' cellphone.
In Oriental Mindoro, military and police personnel were in trouble with fishermen and humanitarian groups conducting a boat construction project in Naujan on February 7. The project aims to distribute boats and fishing equipment to those affected by the oil spill when last year. After the program was ruined, the military had no shame that the program was part of the National Task Force-ELCAC campaign.