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Philippine police have arrested a doctor in the capital Manila, accusing her of being a leader of a Maoist rebel group that has waged a decades-long insurgency against the government. Maria Natividad Castro, 53, is being held without bail and will be tried on charges of kidnapping, for which a lower court had ordered her arrest […]

Philippine police have arrested a doctor in the capital Manila, accusing her of being a leader of a Maoist rebel group that has waged a decades-long insurgency against the government. Maria Natividad Castro, 53, is being held without bail and will be tried on charges of kidnapping, for which a lower court had ordered her arrest…

But her former employer, human rights monitor Karapatan, said Castro was facing “trumped up” charges after she investigated alleged human rights violations in the volatile Mindanao region while also setting up community health centres there. Critics say allegations of communism — known locally as “red-tagging” — have been used to discredit and detain activists, journalists, lawyers and dissidents.

But after talks collapsed in 2017, he branded the Communist Party and its armed wing “terrorist organisations” and ordered soldiers to shoot female insurgents in the genitals.

 

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