On March 13, 2020 at around 3 AM a composite team of police and military from the National Capital Region Police Office, Police Regional Office Cordillera, Baguio City Police Office and AFP-Northern Luzon Command went to Hamada Subd., Lourdes Extension, Baguio City to serve a search warrant and 4 arrest warrants to Julius Giron. Accordingly, the three shot at the state forces prompting them to shot back resulting in the death of the three. Giron was a member of the political bureau and the chairman of the National Military Commission of the CPP-NPA and was appointed as the overall chairman of the CPP-NPA in 2014. He also heads the CPPNorthern Luzon Commission. Tangco was a medical doctor a member of the CPP Executive Committee while Alarcon served as security aide of Giron and was a member of the CPP-NPA Northern Luzon. 4. EUGENE BACANI JR. (CHR-CAR Case No. 2020 - 0052) Eugene Bacani Jr. is the son of a known drug personality. As for his profile, he was known as a robber and a thief. He came from a drinking spree and went home after. He was then reported missing. The next day, he was found dead at Loakan Proper, Baguio City. He sustained a puncture wound in his chest and ligature marks on his neck. Discrimination on Account of Political Belief or Opini on CHR CAR received 8 cases of red-tagging cases this semester. The victims are members of media, activists and human rights advocates but were being labeled or tagged as NPA or communist supporters, recruiters, or supporters by the PNP. Red tagging has been defined as an act of State actors, particularly law enforcement agencies, to publicly brand individuals, groups, or institutions as...affiliated to communist or leftist terrorists It has also been defined as the act of labelling, branding, naming and accusing individuals and/ or organizations of being left-leaning, subversives, communists or terrorists (used as) a strategy...by State agents, particularly law enforcement agencies and the military, against those perceived to be 'threats' or 'enemies of the State. Red-tagging impinges on the right to free expression and dissent according to media and rights groups. Red-tagging also threatens the lives or safety of individuals. 1. SHERWIN DE VERA (CHR-CAR Case No. 2020-0010) 13 P a g e CHR CAR REGIONAL HR SITUATION REPORT – JANUARY to JUNE 2020