Forty-four leaders of various organizations appealed to the high court to declare the law unconstitutional, for it “insidiously encroaches upon fundamental and constitutional rights, such arbitrary deprivation of the right to life, liberty and property and the non-observance of the right to due process and to presumption of innocence.”
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Victims’ Kin Welcome Guilty Verdict on Arroyo, Bush by Int’l Tribunal
BY EMILY VITAL Posted 12:47 p.m., March 26, 2007 Families of victims of extrajudicial killings, enforced disappearances and other human rights violations welcomed the verdict of an international tribunal declaring both the Arroyo and Bush governments guilty of crimes against humanity. In a press conference in Quezon City, Monday, Dee Ayroso, coordinator of Desaparecidos, said…