“Calling COURAGE or ACT as ‘CTG organizations’ may not only serve as a basis for the Anti-Terrorism Council to declare the existence of “probable cause” in the commission of the crime of recruitment to or membership in a terrorist organization, it also exposes its members to liability for other punishable acts under RA 11479 as well as RA 10168 or the ‘The Terrorism Financing, Prevention, and Suppression Act of 2012’,” petitioners said.
“The DILG memorandum is undeniable proof that the affiliate unions, federations, and associations of COURAGE and ACT, as well as their individual members and officers are among the targets of the government’s vicious crackdown on dissent and activism under the Anti-Terrorism Act,” the petitioners said in a manifestation electronically filed Monday.
“The foregoing incidents remind us once again of the terror that the assailed law perpetuates. Indeed, the continued implementation of RA 11479 can only bring grim and imminent prospects of grave injustice and irreparable injury to Petitioners and the Filipino people,” they added. Early this month, human rights lawyer Angelo Karlo “AK” Guillen was stabbed in the head with a screwdriver. Guillen is a counsel in one of the 37 petitions against the Anti-Terrorism Act pending before the Supreme Court.
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