Carol Pagaduan Araullo is seeking P2 million in damages as she Lorraine Badoy and Jeffrey Celiz for “their incessant and wanton Red-tagging” that targeted her and her organization on their TV program and on social media. | krixiasINQ /PDI
In several episodes of their show, the two Laban hosts described Araullo as “a top recruiter for the CPP-NPA while posing as a human rights defender,” it added.They also referred to her son, broadcast journalist Atom Araullo, as the “son of a CPP central committee member” and challenged him to “talk about the crimes that your mother enabled to protect the CPP-NPA-NDF, where your mother is an urban operative.
“What is clear is this: Defendants have no right to speak falsely or maliciously of other persons. The constitutional right of freedom of expression may not be availed of to broadcast lies or half-truths, insult others, destroy their name or reputation or bring them into disrepute,” she said. She spoke of having sleepless nights because of the social media comments generated by the accusations, maligning both her and Atom.
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