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UN expert expresses concern on anti-terror bill

“The advancement of broad, vague and overly abrasive definition and legislation relating to terrorism can have the opposite of the intended effect which is that by silencing voices, by cracking down on civil society, by weakening the due process and protections offered by the criminal justice system that doesn’t strengthen the States by rather weakening the due process protections offered by the criminal justice system — that doesn’t strengthen the States but rather weakens it in the long run.”

A human rights lawyer who is now with the United Nations urges the head of the Philippine National Police Regional Office in the Cordillera (PRO-COR) to cause the immediate arrest and prosecution of a Mountain Province official identified as a suspect in the killing of a human rights worker. BY ARTHUR L. ALLAD-IW Northern Dispatch…