SC asked: Take a second look at anti-terrorism law amid 'deadly consequences'

This photo release from the Integrated Bar of the Philippines shows legal counsels of some of the petitioners against the Anti-Terrorism Act of 2020 who filed a Joint Motion for Partial Reconsideration on March 2, 2022.

Integrated Bar of the Philippines Facebook release

MANILA, Philippines — Petitioners against the Anti-Terrorism Act of 2020 have appealed to the Supreme Court to take another look at the feared law, citing the “deadly consequences” of its implementation.

Twenty-six groups of petitioners have banded together and filed a joint motion for partial reconsideration in a bid to reverse the SC’s historic ruling on the ATA that kept the feared law mostly intact.

“We knock on the good senses of the justices of the SC, the independence of the SC that they would take a second look, not for any other reason, but for the benefit of the Filipino nation and for the institution,” lawyer Howard Calleja said in a presser after their filing.

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