Not On Our Watch: Martial Law Really Happened. We Were There.As living witnesses and survivors of the Marcos dictatorship, the veteran journalists cited incidents under the Duterte administration that mirrored what happened during Martial Law.the numerous cases filed against Rappler, the shutdown of broadcast giant ABS-CBN, and the police's red-tagging of the media.
“The anti-terrorism law is de facto martial law – and this early it telegraphs abuse. So, we hold the line. We stay on watch,” the group said. The veteran journalists said that under the anti-terror law,"individuals questioning the government's use of the COVID-19 budget, for instance, or groups protesting their hunger and lack of jobs under the worst recession in the country in 30 years – all can be arrested as terrorists just for making noise."