Police said charges of violating Section 4, Paragraph 12 of the Omnibus Guidelines on the Implementation of Community Quarantine in the Philippines, particularly the prohibition on mass gathering, will be filed against the arrested protesters before the Cebu City Prosecutor’s Office.
The eight detainees were part of about 30 people who voiced their opposition to the proposed Anti-Terrorism Act of 2020 that the House of Representatives, adopting the Senate version, approved on third and final reading on Wednesday. That agreement, signed by then Defense Secretary Fidel Ramos and then UP president Jose Abueva, is known in UP as the Soto-Enrile Accord, in reference to student leader Sonia Soto and then Defense Minister Juan Ponce Enrile.The agreement states in part that “members of the AFP or the PC-INP , or the Cafgu shall not interfere with peaceful protest actions by UP constituents within UP premises.”
Corro added that “In any case, we are deeply disappointed that none of the police officers tried to coordinate with UP Cebu [with regards] to handling the situation which we hope could have led to a more sound and sensible resolution in light of prevailing restrictions under the general community quarantine.”
Responding, in particular, to Thursday’s protest at UP Diliman, PNP spokesperson Brig. Gen. Bernard Banac said “we should avoid any opportunity for possible human-to-human transmission of a deadly virus that even UP scientists themselves are trying so hard to eradicate.”
Wlang social distancing
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This government is behaving more and more like the government of the People’s Republic of China.
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