In an interview with UNTV, also on Wednesday, Police Lt. Gen. Guillermo Eleazar, the Joint Task Force COVID Shield commander, assured protesters that maximum tolerance would be observed by the police.They would initially ask protesters to voluntarily disperse, he said. But if the protesters violate health protocols, Eleazar said, “We will be compelled to disperse them.”
Opponents of the antiterrorism measure say it could be used to suppress dissent, and violate civil and political rights.The use of the term, which is a traditional early morning serenade, is a swipe at the 55th birthday celebration of Metro Manila’s police chief Maj. Gen. Debold Sinas, who escaped sanctions from his superiors for alleged violations of quarantine rules.Gen. Felimon Santos Jr.
The Congress of Teachers and Educators for Nationalism and Democracy said its members and supporters would assert their right to protest and stage the Independence Day protest at the UP Diliman campus even though the Inter-Agency Task Force on Emerging Infectious Diseases limited mass gathering to 10 people.
Nagkaisa chair Sonny Matula said the bill violated the separation of powers provision in the Constitution. The House of Representatives approved the antiterror bill on third reading on June 3, but just days later some members withdrew their “yes” votes or changed them to “abstain.”A House leader on Wednesday told the Inquirer the votes could no longer be retracted and those who “were obviously pressured by social media” to change their minds should quit their committee chairmanships and other plum posts out of respect for the majority coalition.
The question is: ano ang mas matimbang, konstitusyon o ang covid? Don’t use covid to repress our civil liberties!
God bless the Philippines! God curse the CPP NDF NPA!
Public assemblies are still not allowed under GCQ. It isn't about politics.
Group yourselves into 10 po, rent large sound boxes then blast upuan by gloc 9
MAÑANITA NG KAALYADO LANG PWEDE
SI SINAS MUNA.
Any group of people on the street is a mass gathering subject to arrest.? Like the mass gathering to get benefits at LGUs and waiting for transportation to work or just protesting the current government? Wow, how things have changed.
Pakyu
Group of 10 kasi
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