CHR 9 to conduct information
campaign on Anti Terror Law
The Commission on Human (CHR) regional office will conduct an information dissemination campaign on the newly approved Anti Terrorism Law so that people will be aware of what the law is all about.
CHR Regional Director Atty. Manuel Mamauag said that a team of lawyers of the CHR will go to the different areas in the city to explain the Anti Terrorism Law or Human Security Act of 2007.
The Anti Terrorism Law was created to protect the people from the threat of terrorism worldwide.
The controversial Anti Terrorism Law will formally take effect on July 15, 2007 as the law was already signed by President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo last March 6, 2007.
The law became controversial because many are saying that the new law may invade the rights of every Filipino citizen to privacy and freedom.
In the new law, a citizen can be arrested even without a warrant of arrest, wire tapping can now be done and the checking of bank accounts can be undertaken by agents of the government without need to have the consent of the person being checked by them.
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