{"id":258940,"date":"2020-06-22T23:24:06","date_gmt":"2020-06-23T03:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=258940"},"modified":"2020-06-22T23:24:06","modified_gmt":"2020-06-23T03:24:06","slug":"legal-team-still-reviewing-anti-terror-bill-duterte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/06\/22\/legal-team-still-reviewing-anti-terror-bill-duterte\/","title":{"rendered":"Legal team still reviewing anti-terror bill: Duterte"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>
President Rodrigo Roa Duterte holds a meeting with members of the Inter-Agency Task Force on the Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID) at the Malago Clubhouse in Malaca\u00f1ang on June 22, 2020. ROBINSON NI\u00d1AL JR.\/PRESIDENTIAL PHOTO<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday said his legal advisers are still reviewing the bill that aims to strengthen the country\u2019s law against terrorism.<\/p>\n

In a public address, Duterte said he has yet to receive a copy of feedback from his legal team on the anti-terrorism bill\u2019s provisions.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy legal is still reviewing it. My legal team sa Malaca\u00f1an. There\u2019s only —\u00a0hindi ko pa natanggap<\/em>\u00a0(I haven\u2019t received it yet),\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He said that once the legislation reaches his desk, it should already have the recommendation to sign or veto it.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s always — automatic\u00a0\u2018yan<\/em>\u00a0(it\u2019s automatic).\u00a0\u2018Pag daan sa akin<\/em>\u00a0(when it reaches me), I endorse it to legal. Without even reading it actually, if you — if you want really to know. It\u2019s legal who will return it to me with a recommendation whether I will approve it or not,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Earlier, Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said that the Office of the Chief Presidential Legal Counsel and the Department of Justice have already submitted their feedback on the proposed law.<\/p>\n

Roque said the Office of the Executive Secretary, particularly the Deputy Executive Secretary for Legal Affairs is still finalizing their inputs.<\/p>\n

He, however, noted that the President, a lawyer himself, would not just rely on the recommendations but read the provisions of the bill himself.<\/p>\n

\u201cLet\u2019s not forget, that the President was also a criminal lawyer, a public prosecutor. He will read the bill himself and he will himself make a determination if there\u2019s any provision that is contrary to the bill of rights and the Constitution,\u201d he said in a virtual presser on June 17.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Duterte also stressed that besides the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19), terrorism is still the top threat to the country\u2019s security.<\/p>\n

\u201cTerrorism is number one on our list. Actually the number one threat to the country\u00a0hindi<\/em>\u00a0(it\u2019s not) Abu Sayyaf,\u00a0hindi \u2018yung mga terorista<\/em>\u00a0(it\u2019s not terrorists) of no value.\u00a0Itong<\/em>\u00a0high-value targets\u00a0ito \u2018yung mga komunista<\/em>\u00a0(The high-value targets are communists),\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He urged the Armed Forces of the Philippines to strike the communist rebels first before they launched attacks.<\/p>\n

\u201cKaya ang utos ko talaga sa<\/em>\u00a0Armed Forces,\u00a0sa sundalo, upakan mo, upakan mo. Kasi \u2018pag ikaw ang inabot<\/em>\u00a0(That\u2019s why my order to the Armed Forces, the soldiers is to strike first before the NPA gets them),\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He also appealed to the communist rebels not to harm soldiers escorting the field officers of the Department of Social Welfare and Development distributing cash aid under the social amelioration program.<\/p>\n

The anti-terrorism bill seeks to amend and give more teeth to the provisions of the Human Security Act of 2007.<\/p>\n

Under the proposed measure, the detention of suspected terrorists for up to 24 days sans a warrant of arrest will be permitted. It also allows a 60-day surveillance with an allowable 30-day extension that can be conducted by the police or the military against the suspected terrorists.<\/p>\n

A person who voluntarily or knowingly joins a terrorist organization will also face 12 years of imprisonment.<\/p>\n

Some lawmakers and human rights groups have opposed the measure, saying it would allow violation of human rights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MANILA\u00a0\u2013 President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday said his legal advisers are still reviewing the bill that aims to strengthen the …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":258941,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-258940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-azer-parrocha","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258940"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":258942,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258940\/revisions\/258942"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}