MANILA - Party-list group Gabriela on Friday filed complaints against the military and police before the Commission on Human Rights alleging continued harassment against women activists on the runup to the midterm elections.

Gabriela Representatives Arlene Brosas and Emmi de Jesus, along with other women activists, filed the complaints against the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and the Philippine National Police (PNP) at the office of CHR Commissioner Karen Gomez-Dumpit.

"We are sounding the alarm at the CHR as our officers and leaders are subjects of vilification, trumped-up charges, red-tagging and political persecution by state forces as the midterm polls approach," de Jesus said in a statement.

"We want the commission to bare the accountability of the AFP, PNP and their goons for putting the lives and safety of our leaders at risk,” she added.

De Jesus noted the supposed red-tagging of their third nominee in the party-list elections, Lucy Francisco, who was allegedly identified as a supporter of the New People's Army in leaflets circulating in Iloilo City.

She also noted the continued detention of activists Hedda Calderon, Eula Ledesma and Yolanda Tiamsay on supposedly trumped-up charges.

“Not surprisingly, all these attacks against our leaders coincide with the attacks against other progressive party-lists under Makabayan,” Brosas said, in reference to the leftist Makabayan bloc in the House of Representatives.