{"id":260584,"date":"2020-07-06T01:11:27","date_gmt":"2020-07-06T05:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=260584"},"modified":"2020-07-06T01:11:27","modified_gmt":"2020-07-06T05:11:27","slug":"dnd-chief-welcomes-petitions-challenging-new-anti-terror-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/07\/06\/dnd-chief-welcomes-petitions-challenging-new-anti-terror-law\/","title":{"rendered":"DND chief welcomes petitions challenging new anti-terror law"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_250156\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-250156\" style=\"width: 3600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/snd-6-10-19-presscon-a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-250156\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/snd-6-10-19-presscon-a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"3600\" height=\"2400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/snd-6-10-19-presscon-a.jpg 3600w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/snd-6-10-19-presscon-a-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/snd-6-10-19-presscon-a-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/snd-6-10-19-presscon-a-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 3600px) 100vw, 3600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-250156\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: Department of National Defense (DND) Secretary Delfin Lorenzana at Camp Aguinaldo in Quezon City on Monday (June 10, 2019). (PNA photo by Joey O. Razon)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana on Monday welcomed petitions filed before the Supreme Court against the newly-signed Anti-Terrorism Act of 2020 or Republic Act 11479 saying it is within the people&#8217;s rights to do so.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We welcome this so that we will know with finality the constitutionality of the ATL (Anti-Terrorism Law),&#8221; he said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a free country. It is within their rights to do so,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>After President Rodrigo Duterte signed into law the proposed Anti-Terrorism Act of 2020 last Friday, a petition was filed before the High Court to stop its enforcement. Petitioners said its provision was &#8220;repugnant&#8221; to the Constitution.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Lorenzana assured the public that the new law would be strictly implemented and not abused.<\/p>\n<p>He said it is a &#8220;much-needed&#8221; measure that would &#8220;clothe law enforcement agencies with the necessary power&#8221; to contain and eradicate terrorists.<\/p>\n<p>Lorenzana called on Filipinos to give the new law a chance and not be swayed by misinformation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0\u2013 Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana on Monday welcomed petitions filed before the Supreme Court against the newly-signed Anti-Terrorism Act of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":222203,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-260584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-priam-nepomuceno","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260584","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=260584"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":260585,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260584\/revisions\/260585"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}