Focus Taiwan
Date: 2018/04/03
By: Christie Chen 

Taipei, April 3 (CNA) Members of 17 civic groups and NGOs protested outside the Manila Economic and Cultural Office (MECO) in Taipei on Tuesday, against what they called the Philippine government’s “unjustified” labeling of hundreds of people as “terrorists.”

The protesters shouted “stop the killings in the Philippines” and held placards that read “activism is not terrorism” outside of MECO, which represents the Philippines’ interests in Taiwan in the absence of official diplomatic ties.

The protesters denounced a court petition filed by the Philippine government in February that seeks to declare more than 600 individuals terrorists over their alleged links with the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) and its armed wing, the New People’s Army.
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