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MANILA, Philippines – It was through a friend’s message, with a link to a news report, that Linn Ordidor discovered on April 25, a Saturday, that the Philippine government was asking the Taiwanese government to deport her.
The reason: their Facebook posts that the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) found “unpleasant and malicious”, and that they felt were intended to “discredit and defame” President Rodrigo Duterte, as well as “destabilize the government.”
Ordidor would later admit that her positions were critical of the president, but she did not believe they were what DOLE described them to be, and there was certainly no reason for officials from the Philippine labor office in Taichung, Taiwan to seek her out in her Workplace. in Yunlin County on April 17.
What is wrong with saying one’s opinion about the events in your homeland? When you last checked, the Philippines was a democracy where freedom of expression is enshrined as a basic right, Ordidor tells Rappler’s JC Göttingen in this interview.
Undeterred by the warnings of labor officials, Ordidor refused to apologize for the views he had publicly expressed, though he was somewhat concerned with what they would do with what they called his “stubbornness.”
Indeed, a week and a day later, the labor office was pressing to be removed from her job and sent home to the Philippines, to her 3 children who depend on remittances from her and her husband.
Would she lose her nearly 3-year caregiver job simply because the Duterte administration was offended by her criticism?
Ordidor did not have to worry too much, because on Tuesday, April 28, the Taiwanese government rejected DOLE’s request to deport her. Taiwan, which the Philippines considers a renegade province of China, said the Filipino worker is covered by his law that protects freedom of expression, a law that also exists in the Philippines.
Watch and listen as Linn Ordidor talks about his convictions and why he believes that being stubborn and open is worth the risk of offending the powerful. – Rappler.com
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