In this third installment of Davao Today’s series of Q&As on the 2007 elections, Glenda Gloria, managing editor of Newsbreak magazine and one of the country’s most respected political journalists, explains why electoral reform (or the absence of it) is key in this election and beyond.
PIMENTEL IDENTIFIES MOST DANGEROUS PROVISIONS OF
ANTI-TERROR LAW
MANILA– Senate Minority Leader Aquilino Q. Pimentel, Jr.
(PDP-Laban) today described the Human Security Act of
2007 as a dangerous piece of legislation, as he cited
at least five sections of the law which ?may be abused
by the powerful and used as instruments of state
terrorism against the powerless.?
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MANILA — Amnesty International welcomed today?s decision by the International Criminal Court to issue arrest warrants for two suspected Sudanese war criminals, and urged the Sudanese government to immediately arrest the two men and hand them over to the Court in The Hague.
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The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today called on the Nigerian authorities to launch an independent investigation into the ?inhumane? beating of Dare Folorunso, a cameraman with the state-owned Ondo State Radiovision Corporation, by police officers who accused him of shooting ?offensive? video of female police officers.
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