FORMER congressman and activist Satur Ocampo asked a local court to remove his name from a petition by the Department of Justice (DoJ) to declare him and several other individuals as terrorists.

In a 40-page motion filed before the Manila Regional Trial Court Branch 19 earlier this week, Ocampo said that his “arbitrary labelling” as a “known officer” of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) and the New People’s Army (NPA) was “without punitive consequences.

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