Implementing Rules and Regulations of Anti-Terror Law: ‘Worse than Terror Law itself’ – rights advocates

Implementing Rules and Regulations of Anti-Terror Law: ‘Worse than Terror Law itself’ – rights advocates

The Anti-Terrorism Act violates international standards on human rights and countering-terrorism with its vague and overboard definitions of “terrorism” as well as the excessive powers it grants to the Executive branch of the government.

By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL
Bulatlat.com

MANILA – Human rights lawyers assailed the recently released implementing rules and regulations (IRR) of the Republic Act No. 11479 or the Anti-Terrorism Act of 2020, the most contested law in the Philippine history.

National Union of Peoples’ Lawyers (NUPL) President Edre Olalia said that the IRR contains worrying provisions that “supply, extend, enlarge and even add to the provisions of the law without statutory bases.”

“As we have said time and again, the water cannot rise above its source. The IRR is the blindsided way to cure by way of afterthought a defective and unconstitutional law ab initio,” Olalia said.

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