More petitions to come: Supreme Court battle vs anti-terror law starts

FEU PETITION. Petitioners led by FEU Dean Mel Sta Maria compose the 3rd group that went to the Supreme Court to question the constitutionality of the anti-terror law. Photo by Lian Buan/Rapplersigned by President Rodrigo DuterteOne group of petitioners was an early bird to the High Court on Monday, July 6, arriving in Padre Faura even before its gates opened, to file their petitions challenging the constitutionality of the Duterte government's divisive anti-terror law.

Lagman and Makabayan's petitions want to declare the entire law unconstitutional. Both lawmaker groups also requested for TRO. The FEU group justified their legal standing by saying that the law's threat to freedom of speech affects them as educators who want to teach their students"that dissent and activism are part of democracy."

seriously destabilizing or destroying the fundamental political, economic, or social structures of the countrySections 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10 punish threats, planning, conspiracies, proposals and inciting to commit terrorism as well as recruitment to a terrorist organization. The 2007 Human Security Act only punished conspiracy to commit terrorism.

Lagman's petition also pointed out how the anti-terror law removed a part previously found in the 2007 Human Security Act, which explicitly said that an element of terrorism is to"coerce the government to give in to an unlawful demand." Makabayan's petition said the broad definitions will give"too much leeway" to charge progressive individuals such as themselves and others who dare express dissent.

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