Gabriela tells Parlade to stop red-tagging Liza Soberano

On Thursday, Gabriela Women’s Party told Southern Luzon Command (SolCom) chief Lieutenant General Antonio Parlade Jr. to stop red-tagging Liza Soberano and other women’s rights defenders.

“How come these macho-fascists have the audacity to mansplain strong women and lecture them on what to do? And why do they seem so afraid of women using their platform to defend other women?” Gabriela party-list Representative Arlene Brosas said.

“These rabid NTF-ELCAC executives are using their rehashed script to discredit Gabriela Women’s Party despite our long track record of advocating women’s rights,” she added.

Brosas said the military official’s appeal to stop red-tagging the actress is “starkly ironic” as he actually red-tagged her in his same statement.

“By saying that Soberano is ‘not yet an NPA,’ he is maliciously associating the actress with the armed movement when what she did in the youth forum was to only speak up for all the victims of gender-based violence and abuse,” Brosas said.

Southern Luzon Command (Solcom) chief Lieutenant General Antonio Parlade Jr. earlier warned actress Liza Soberano concerning her support to the Gabriela Women’s Party, allegedly connected to communists rebels.

Gabriela tells Parlade to stop red-tagging Liza Soberano

Parlade said Wednesday that Soberano should not be red-tagged as she is merely supporting women’s rights advocacies.

Parlade said MAKIBAKA is an underground group hiding under Gabriela Women’s Party.

“Liza Soberano, there’s still a chance to abdicate that group. If you don’t, you will suffer the same fate as Josephine Anne Lapira @ELLA, former Deputy Secretary-General of Gabriela Youth of UP Manila and defender of women’s rights, even against sexual predators amongst her comrades in the NPA unit she joined, which is clearly stated in her handwritten letter addressed to a certain @EMIL,” Parlade said.

Meanwhile, the legal counsel of actress Liza Soberano slammed Thursday the alleged red-tagging of the actress on social media, insisting she remains apolitical.

“We denounce in the strongest terms the red-tagging of our client, Ms. Liza Soberano, in some social media platforms,” Attorney Juanito Lim Jr. said in a statement obtained by GMA News Online.