Three months after the controversial law took effect, the Department of Justice
(DOJ)
has released the implementing rules and regulations (IRR) of Republic Act
11479
or the Anti-Terrorism Act of 2020.
Justice USec.
Adrian Sugay said the IRR was accessible on the DOJ’s website Friday night in
an interview over radio station DZBB.
The IRR will
also be published in two newspapers of general circulation, Sugay added.
The bill was
signed by President Rodrigo Duterte on July 3, 2020, and took effect on July
18.
“By means of speeches, proclamations,
writings, emblems, banners, or other representations,” the Anti-Terrorism Act
of 2020 try to strengthen the Human Security Act of 2007 and criminalizes
incitement of terrorism
It also allows
the detention of suspects for up to 24 days without charge and empowers an
anti-terrorism council to designate suspects or groups as suspected terrorists
who could be subjected to arrests and surveillance.
Since the
Cybercrime Prevention Act the law is the most contested because the anti-terror
law currently faces 37 petitions filed before the Supreme Court, challenging
the law’s constitutionality.
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