He added, Our situation these days is worse than martial law in the 1970s. At least then, Marcos categorically declared Martial Law in September 21, 1972. This Anti-Terror Law, sugarcoated as the Human Security Act, legitimizes the governments repression of rights while it is claiming that we are still in a fully-functioning democracy and that the law only serves to protect the state and the people from terror attacks. The HSA is not good in apprehending who it should go after but it is excellent in terrorizing local communities that peacefully claim their constitutionally-guaranteed rights.
The ALG urged the communities to be vigilant. The ALG launched a nationwide monitoring network to guard against human rights abuses that may be perpetrated in the implementation of the HSA. It gave hotline numbers of the ALGs nationwide that people could contact whenever there are abuses being perpetrated for which legal assistance may be needed. We cannot allow laws such as the HSA to take away from us our rights that we fought for just as we certainly cannot allow armed men to just search and seize communities documents, concluded Manuel.
Contact:
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