The incident marks a first in recent history that police confiscated copies of a magazine considered a threat to the government.
The Philippine National Police confiscated copies of a progressive community magazine that allegedly calls on Filipinos to resist the Philippine government.from the Bulacan office of an urban poor organization and stacked these at the back of a police vehicle before driving off.
The incident marks a first in recent history that law enforcement confiscated copies of a publication it deems to be a threat to government."At about 9:30 this morning of July 26, at least eight elements of the Pandi police station of the Philippine National Police went to the local Kadamay office to seize theprint copies. Members of Kadamay asked for a search warrant from the cops," Kenneth Roland Guda, Pinoy Weekly editor-in-chief, said on the magazine's official Facebook page.
He said that witnesses heard Captain Jun Alejandrino, the Pandi police chief who headed the raid, say that the magazines were"illegal" and"teaches people to fight the government". Guda said that witnesses also heard Alejandro order Kadamay members at the office to surrender the magazines or"Guda said that on Saturday night, the police arrested Rose Fortaleza, a Kadamay member who lives in the same housing unit in that was raided on Sunday. The police did not have a warrant for Fortaleza's arrest, Guda added.
It is unclear if the police had a warrant to search KADAMAY's office in Pandi and confiscate copies of
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