Chairperson emeritus of Bagong Alyansang Makabayan Maria Carolina Araullo has filed a civil suit against former anti-communist taskforce spokesperson Lorraine Marie Badoy over her red-tagging on an SMNI program. | JEMendozaINQ
She also lamented that her silence on the repeated accusation has been misconstrued as a “weak defense if not actual guilt.”
Worse, she said, her son broadcast journalist Alfonso Tomas “Atom” Araullo has also become a target of red-tagging and terrorist labeling.According to the 24-page complaint, Araullo demanded P1 million pesos in moral damages, P500,000 each for exemplary and moral damages, as well as the attorneys’ fees and costs of the suit.
The complaint said Badoy and Celis should pay moral damages for causing Araullo to suffer “mental anguish, sleepless nights, wounded feelings, and moral shock.”Furthermore, Araullo’s camp said she is also entitled to nominal damages since Badoy and Celis “abused their right to speech, in violation of the rights” of the activist, while they also have to pay exemplary damages to “serve as a deterrent against similar socially deleterious acts.
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