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Up to local government, not cops, to allow SONA protests or not

By Xave Gregorio | July 20, 2022 - 5:04pm

Permits are not needed for assemblies at designated freedom parks, like Liwasang Diokno in the Commission on Human Rights...

Headlines

CHR: Use of water cannons on protesters uncalled for

By Rhodina Villanueva | August 18, 2014 - 12:00am

The use of water cannons by policemen in dispersing protesters during the President’s State of the Nation Address (SONA) last July was uncalled for, the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) said.

Headlines

Groups to file complaint vs PNP over violent dispersal

August 6, 2012 - 8:38am

Various militant and people's groups are set to file a complaint before the Office of the Ombudsman against Philippine National Police for preventing them from holding a program in front of the Batasang Pambansa...

5 arrested in Mendiola rally

By Sandy Araneta | December 8, 2011 - 12:00am

Five protesters, who allegedly attacked police officers securing a rally on Mendiola bridge yesterday were arrested by the Manila Police District (MPD).

Metro

Palace: SC decision did not clip GMA’s powers

By Paolo Romero | May 5, 2006 - 12:00am

Malacañang maintained yesterday that President Arroyo was not stripped of her power to quell threats to national security when the Supreme Court declared that arrests made by the police and military under...

Headlines

EDITORIAL - Return to maximum tolerance

April 26, 2006 - 12:00am

Let’s consider the key points in the Supreme Court ruling yesterday. The administration’s ill-advised "calibrated preemptive response" to street protests was declared unconstitutional. Maximum...

Opinion

EDITORIAL - Return to maximum tolerance

April 26, 2006 - 12:00am

Let’s consider the key points in the Supreme Court ruling yesterday. The administration’s ill-advised "calibrated preemptive response" to street protests was declared unconstitutional. Maximum...

Opinion

Useless assemblies

By A LAW EACH DAY (KEEPS TROUBLE AWAY) | By Jose C. Sison | November 11, 2005 - 12:00am

With the convening of the "Citizens Congress for Truth and Accountability" (CCTA), our country enters into another episode in the ongoing political strife. This debilitating conflict will not end...

Opinion

Breaking the impasse

By A LAW EACH DAY (KEEPS TROUBLE AWAY) | By Jose C. Sison | October 21, 2005 - 12:00am

It is a universally accepted truism that there can be no peace without justice. But with the current happenings in our country, I am now equally convinced that the opposite is also true – that there...

Opinion

‘CPR’ vs. ‘CPR’

By A LAW EACH DAY (KEEPS TROUBLE AWAY) | By Jose C. Sison | September 30, 2005 - 12:00am

In a country like the Philippines inhabited by freedom-loving people who are inordinately zealous in the exercise of their rights, the State’s hands are in some way fettered by a set of prescriptions guaranteeing...

Opinion