Watch more in iWantTFC MANILA - A lawmaker on Friday slammed as "patently unconstitutional" a bill in the House of Representatives amending the country's drugs law that presumes drug suspects guilty until proven innocent.
"I would rather see 10 guilty people be set free than have 1 innocent individual wrongly accused and put to jail. Once you take away liberty from a person, once you take time away from that person, this is something you can't give back," he said. "While I'm also one with other legislators that we have to protect our children and citizens from the scourge of dangerous drugs, we should not sacrifice individual rights just because we want to strengthen our drug laws," Suntay, chairperson of House committee on human rights, said. Some 188 lawmakers in the lower House voted in favor of the proposed legislation.
Moot na nga ang inutil na panukalang batas ni barbers..pinapatay na nga mga suspects at libo libo na...para ano pa...sa eyes palang presumed guilty na....
pmjamilla The wristband though..
thats how SOCIALISTS country work country will go down really fast with this kind of law... more innocent lives will be killed by Dutae PNPangterorista before they are proven innocent
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