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Vietnam jails Facebook user for pro-democracy broadcasts

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jul 07 10:30 PM

A Vietnamese man accused of "defaming" the country's leaders for broadcasting his pro-democracy views on Facebook was jailed for eight years on Tuesday after a lightning-quick trial denounced by rights groups. Read more »

Supreme Court consolidates 4 pleas vs Anti-Terrorism Act

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jul 07 04:17 PM

The Supreme Court has consolidated 4 petitions to block the Anti-Terrorism Act, which critics said could be used to target government critics, 2 sources told ABS-CBN News on Tuesday. Read more »

'Be my guest!': Sotto shrugs off Supreme Court petitions vs Anti-Terror Law

Katrina Domingo, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jul 06 05:13 PM

Senate Presidento Vicente Sotto III on Monday shrugged off reports about numerous petitions questioning the constitutionality of the recently signed Anti-Terror Law. Read more »

Terror law 'like a nightmare' for martial law survivors: Chiz

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jul 06 01:03 PM

The new anti-terrorism law is "like a nightmare being brought back again" for some critics who lived through the martial law under President Ferdinand Marcos, said former senator and Sorsogon Governor Francis "Chiz" Escudero said Monday.    Read more »

'Nobody' can release terror suspects from 24-day warrantless detention: lawyer

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jul 06 11:12 AM

"Nobody" can interfere with the 24-day arrest of terror suspects under the new Anti-Terror Law that critics say could be used to target government critics, a lawyer who is leading the Supreme Court challenge against the measure said Monday.    Read more »

Pangilinan to challenge anti-terror law before Supreme Court

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jul 05 04:33 PM

Sen. Francis "Kiko" Pangilinan said Sunday he would file a petition before the Supreme Court questioning supposed unconstitutional provisions of the Anti-Terror Law. Read more »

BenCab and 100 more of CCP’s 13 Artist awardees issue statement against Anti-Terror Law

ANCX
Updated as of Jul 05 11:53 AM

“As concerned artists and citizens, it is our role to safeguard cultural values which embody our Constitutional rights,” the joint statement proclaims. By AUDREY CARPIO Read more »

Defense dept vows to ensure anti-terror law won't be abused

Gillan Ropero, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jul 05 11:23 AM

The Philippines' defense department vowed Sunday it would ensure that the anti-terrorism law is not abused. Read more »

Who's a terrorist? Social media can be basis under new law but no immediate arrests, says Esperon

Jamaine Punzalan, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jul 04 01:06 PM

Authorities could use social media as basis for identifying terror suspects under a new law that gives law enforcers additional powers against extremists, National Security Adviser Hermogenes Esperon said Saturday.    Read more »

Terror law ill-timed? Extremists know no timing, says senator

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jul 04 04:34 PM

MANILA (UPDATE) — Terrorism "knows no timing", Sen. Panfilo Lacson said Saturday, as critics of an anti-extremism law that he backed questioned its approval during the coronavirus pandemic and prepared to challenge it before the Supreme Court.  Read more »

Anti-terror law takes effect on July 18; Supreme Court fight looms

Jamaine Punzalan, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jul 04 06:04 PM

MANILA — The contentious anti-terrorism law will take effect in 2 weeks, Malacañang confirmed Saturday, as critics who feared the legislation could be used to silence dissent prepared to challenge it before the Supreme Court.  Read more »

Senator mulls Supreme Court fight vs anti-terror law

Jamaine Punzalan, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jul 04 10:25 AM

Opposition Sen. Risa Hontiveros said Saturday she was looking into challenging before the Supreme Court a contentious anti-terrorism bill that President Rodrigo Duterte approved this week and which critics feared would be used to silence dissent. Read more »

'Draconian': Groups condemn anti-terror law signing, vow to challenge measure

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jul 03 07:45 PM

An international rights group on Friday warned human rights situation in the Philippines could significantly worsen following the signing of anti-terror bill into law.   Read more »

'Wagon of criticisms': Lacson slams UN official for advocating vs Anti-Terror Bill

Katrina Domingo, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jul 03 11:16 AM

Sen. Panfilo Lacson on Thursday criticized a United Nations official who advocated against his Anti-Terror Bill, alleging that the body's Commissioner for Human Rights did not read the actual measure. Read more »

CHR monitors 55 alleged EJKs during COVID-19 lockdown

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jul 02 09:40 AM

The Commission on Human Rights said Thursday it recorded 55 complaints of alleged extrajudicial judicial killings during the country's lockdown against COVID-19. Read more »

UN rights chief describes state of killings in PH 'widespread, systematic, ongoing'

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jul 02 02:12 AM

Human rights groups are wary of the Philippine government's intentions in creating a panel that will investigate thousands of drug war-related deaths.  Read more »

UN rights chief says 'as many as 10,000' flee Myanmar army operations

Reuters
Posted at Jul 01 04:16 AM

The United Nations human rights chief said on Tuesday that up to 10,000 people had fled their homes in Myanmar’s Rakhine state after what she described as heavy fighting in the past week between government troops and ethnic insurgents. Read more »

UN rights chief urges Duterte to 'refrain' from signing anti-terror bill

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jul 01 01:37 PM

MANILA - UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet on Tuesday called on President Rodrigo Duterte not to sign the controversial anti-terror bill, citing its potential "chilling effect" on humanitarian and human rights work.    Read more »

US Supreme Court rejects key challenge to abortion rights

Charlotte Plantive, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jun 30 12:43 PM

The US Supreme Court on Monday struck down a Louisiana law that tightly restricted access to abortion in the first constitutional test of abortion rights since President Donald Trump named two conservative justices to the top court.   Read more »

122 children killed in Philippines drugs war: NGOs

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jun 29 09:17 PM

GENEVA - At least 122 children have been killed in the Philippines' war on drugs -- often deliberately, two non-governmental organisations said Monday, urging the UN to take action. Read more »