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Rights defenders urge SC to reprimand Calida for ‘unethical actions’
A nun joins a protest action against the Anti-Terror Law last Feb. 2, 2021. (photo by Carlo Manalansan/Bulatlat)“The Solicitor General’s allegation is nothing but a desperate attempt to discredit groups that stand firm in opposing the Anti-Terrorism Act, a law that is broadly criticized for the threats it poses against dissenters.”
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL
MANILA – Human rights defenders called on the Supreme Court to reprimand Solicitor General Jose Calida for his “actions that are unethical and reflective of both moral vacuum and the vicious character of the law that he defends.”
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Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, February 9) The Supreme Court on Tuesday junked the petition of two Aetas to intervene in the legal challenge against the Anti-Terrorism Act.
Chief Justice Diosdado Peralta said the high court unanimously denied the petition of Japer Gurung and Junior Ramos, who are the first publicly known individuals to be charged under the anti-terrorism law.
Peralta made this announcement during the second day of the oral arguments on the controversial law after Solicitor General Jose Calida said the Aetas were withdrawing their petition. Calida said the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples and the Public Attorney s Office are now the new counsel for the Aetas, who were previously represented by the National Union of Peoples Lawyers.
2 Aetas not coerced – rights lawyers
By EMILY VITAL
MANILA – The National Union of Peoples’ Lawyers (NUPL) categorically denied that the two Aetas were forced to sign the petition for intervention seeking to nullify the Anti-Terror Law.
The NUPL refuted Solicitor General Jose Calida’s claim that Japer Gurung and Junior Ramos were coerced into signing the petition filed with the high court last week. The group said the two Aetas could not read or write so they just affixed their thumbmarks , after NUPL lawyer Julian Oliva Jr. “meticulously explained to them the Anti-Terrorism Act, the pending petitions before the Supreme Court, and the final draft Petition in Intervention.”
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Global group of lawyers to hold accountable red-taggers of Filipino colleagues
IADL President Jeanne Mirer (Bulatlat file photo)
IADL President Jeanne Mirer said the attacks on Filipino lawyers are in violation of international law including the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the UN Declaration on Human Rights Defenders, the UN Basic Principles on the Role of Lawyers, the Convention against Torture and even of the Fourth Geneva Convention and the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, among others.
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL