Petitioners ask the Supreme Court to strike down the Anti-Terror Law because its definition of terrorism is vague, it violates freedom of speech, and it robs suspects of due process.
– have clamped down on basic freedoms while the world is busy fighting the coronavirus.
The petitioners said in common that the SC should strike down the Anti-Terror Law because its definition of terrorism was vague, it violated freedom of speech, and it robbed suspects of due process. The religious leaders, among them Bishop Broderick Pabillo of Manila, said the Anti-Terror Law reminded them of Hong Kong’s own security law, which analysts said China. “This sounds eerily familiar to us, Filipinos, as we are in a similar situation,” the petitioners said.
In their own petition, the women’s rights group Gabriela said that if the SC fails to restrain the law, “one day, we might as well have countless ‘terrorists’ amongst us – not the real ones, though, but those who are red-tagged and ‘terrorized’ by the state for the work that they do in the service of the Filipino people.”
The Alternative Law Groups, a group of 18 NGOs, said that while provisions of the Anti-Terror Law do not explicitly prohibit speech, “the mere fact that the definitions are not clearly crafted bolsters the fear that the State will have an unbridled discretion in interpreting the said law and may cover legitimate exercise of free speech, press, assembly and association.”
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