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I. INTRODUCTION: COURTESY CALLS “Why would you approach the president? What is the message that you want to make especially if we look at the possibility that you will be aspiring for a higher position?” BY CARMELA FONBUENA April 30, 2021 | 11:30:00 PM
Rodrigo Duterte had been installed president for a little over a month when he received justices of the anti-graft court Sandiganbayan on Aug. 4, 2016 in “Panacañang,” the presidential guest house in Davao City which has served as the Malacañang of the South. A silent video the government released on social media showed him talking in a jovial mood. The video then cut to Samuel Martires, the justice who wrote the decision dismissing a graft case against Duterte in 2011 and was seated across the dining table from him, flashing a big smile, seemingly in reaction to what Duterte just said. ....
Search You Are Here:Home → 2021 → April → 27 → Rights lawyer slams Calida’s red-tagging, calls it ‘a deadly offense’ Rights lawyer slams Calida’s red-tagging, calls it ‘a deadly offense’ By JONAS ALPASAN MANILA – Human rights lawyer Neri Colmenares assailed Solicitor General Jose Calida for red tagging him and other progressive legislators during the online oral arguments on the Anti-Terror Law, April 27. Calida mentioned Colmenares and several progressive partylists whose election paraphernalia were allegedly found in a purported “armory” of the New People’s Army in Laguna last month. “Respondents will say that they are just stating a fact. So what’s the use, your honor, of mentioning my name? This is red-tagging,” said Colmenares. ....
Supreme Court (SC) (MANILA BULLETIN) The National Union of Students of the Philippines (NUSP) strongly condemned the Anti-Terror Law as it is “obviously used by the state to silence critics and to further narrow the people’s democratic spaces.” The first day of oral arguments transpired at the Supreme Court on Tuesday wherein seven lawyers including Atty. Neri Colmenares, Atty. Chel Diokno, Representative Edcel Lagman, Atty. Evelyn Ursua, Atty. Alfredo Molo, former Solicitor General Jose Anselmo Cadiz and Moro lawyer Algaman Latiph faced the interpellations of Justice Rosmari Carandang, Senior Associate Justice Estela Perlas-Bernabe and Justice Marvic Leonen. The lawyers challenged the “terror law” and the unconstitutionality of its provisions. There were 37 petitions from different human rights advocate, lawyers, religious organizations, students and school administrators and individuals were filed to denounce Anti-Terror Law and most of these petitions seek ....
endIndex: Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, February 2) No other law penalizes the exercise of civil and political rights based on a person’s intent, human rights lawyer Chel Diokno said during the Supreme Court’s oral arguments on the Anti-Terrorism Act on Tuesday. “Worse, it allows the state to simply presume the existence of intent from the citizens’ acts even if the acts themselves do not constitute a crime,” said Diokno, one of the seven counsels of the petitioners seeking to junk the controversial law. He argued mainly against Section 4 of the law, which states that advocacy, protest, dissent, and similar exercises of civil and political rights will not be considered terrorism as long as they are “not intended to cause death or serious physical harm to a person, to endanger a person’s life, or to create a serious risk to public safety.” ....