Anti-Terror law petitioners, lawyers renew calls for SC to issue TRO after attack on lawyer

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Petitioners challenge Duterte to condemn attacks MANILA — A brutal attack on an Iloilo-based lawyer who is among the counsel for petitioners against the Anti-Terrorism Act has led to renewed calls for

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the Supreme Court to issue a temporary restraining order against the new law and take a more proactive stance on attacks against lawyers.

— Mike Navallo March 4, 2021 The statement was signed by former Albay Rep. Edcel Lagman, Solicitor General Jose Anselmo Cadiz, former Rep. Neri Colmenares, National Union of Peoples’ Lawyers Secretary General Ephraim Cortez and lawyers Algamar Latiph, Howard Calleja, Evalyn Ursua, Alfredo Molo III and Josalee Deinla, most of whom represented 37 groups of petitioners at the oral arguments in the Supreme Court.

Guillen, it said, is the 4th NUPL member to have survived an attack and is only the latest victim among lawyers and petitioners who oppose the Anti-Terrorism Act. The Carpio group urged the Supreme Court to ask the Office of the Solicitor General if Parlade’s post was an official government position and if he really made that post.

These incidents include the arrest of Lumad teacher Chad Errol Booc in Cebu during a supposed rescue operation of members of an indigenous people’s group in a university in Cebu last month and the “shoot-to-kill” order against Cordillera Peoples Alliance chairperson Windel Bolinget who "surrendered" to the National Bureau of Investigation a month earlier.

“Abugado na ho 'yan, kaalyado ng korte, officer of the court. So ang panawagan namin sa Supreme Court e atasan naman 'yung mga huwes at 'yung DOJ naman 'yung mga fiscal, na bilis-bilisan, i-prioritize naman ang mga kaso ng mga abugado hindi dahil importante kami…dahil nga sa social at public good na kinakailangan makita ng taumbayan na may hustisya lalong-lalo na sa mga nagpapatakbo ng hustisya,” he said.

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