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On 22 December 2020, the Grand Chamber (GC) of the European Court of Human Rights delivered a landmark judgment on the application of Selahattin Demirtaş, the imprisoned politician and former co-chair of the People’s Democratic Party (HDP).
The judgment is seminal in many respects and worthy of careful consideration. This article looks at the Grand Chamber’s determination on Turkey’s main anti-terror provision, namely Article 314 of the Turkish Penal Code;
“1. Anyone who forms or leads an armed organisation with the purpose of committing the offences listed in the fourth and fifth parts of this chapter shall be sentenced to a term of imprisonment of ten to fifteen years.
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Only a firing squad could silence a true Filipino patriot
Jose Rizal s martyrdom leaves an indelible imprint that will always serve as a beacon of hope for his compatriots
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Filipino nationalist Jose Rizal was executed by firing squad on Dec. 30, 1896, at the age of 35. (Image: YouTube)
In the extraordinarily hard times of the coronavirus pandemic, the Philippines today commemorates the 124th anniversary of the tragic death of the country’s best and brightest, known as the greatest man the Malayan race has ever produced national hero Dr. Jose P. Rizal.
An ophthalmologist by profession, Rizal, by the might of his pen, advocated reforms for a country that was under Spanish colonialization. The author of two famous novels,
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Senate President Vicente Sotto III
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Sotto said on Monday that the Duterte administration was right in deciding to terminate its negotiations with the CPP-NPA.
“PRRD (President Duterte) is right. Peace talks (are) not respected by their followers in the lower level. What’s [the] use?” he said in a text message sent to reporters.
Leaders of leftist groups have called for the resumption of the peace talks after the Anti-Terrorism Council (ATC) last December 9, designated the CPP-NPA as a terrorist group “for its acts of violence, various forms of deception, and multiple means of threatening persons and civilizations.”