“We really welcome the help and support from different groups and individuals,” lawyer Kristian Jacob Lora told the INQUIRER. “We’re still hoping that the charges will be dismissed by the prosecutor.”
But if the prosecutor finds sufficient basis to elevate the charges to the court, he said the first step they will take is to post bail so the eight respondents would be released from detention.
Charges for violating the Batas Pambansa 880 or the Public Assembly Act of 1985, Republic Act 11332 otherwise known as the Law on Reporting of Communicable Diseases, and resistance and disobedience to persons in authority were filed against them at the Cebu City Prosecutor’s Office. “We waived our right to a preliminary investigation so we can immediately work for the release of the detainees if the prosecutor decides to elevate the charges to the court,” Lora said.
The Free Legal Assistance Group in Central Visayas , an organization of human rights lawyers, strongly condemned the violent dispersal of the “peaceful” protest staged by student leaders and activists at UP Cebu last Friday.“There was no need for the police to send a contingent of its forces in full battle gear to quell a peaceful rally of citizens whose right to a peaceful assembly is guaranteed by our Constitution,” said FLAG-7 chairman Democrito Barcenas in a statement.
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