The University of the Philippines Cebu administration on Sunday demanded the immediate release of the activists arrested during the June 5 protest against the Anti-Terrorism Bill.
, UP Cebu denounced the city police’s violent dispersal and “undue” arrest of its students and alumni, along with four others, saying the individuals were simply “exercising their right to peaceful assembly.”
The university administration stressed that the right to express one’s view publicly and to hold peaceful protests is not prohibited by any law. UP Cebu called on Mayor Edgar Labella and the Chief of the Cebu City Police to investigate the “clear transgression” of the policemen against the university’s constituents and properties.
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