Retired Supreme Court Justices Join UP Law Faculty Members in Filing Petition Opposing the Anti-Terrorism Law Retired Justices Antonio Carpio and Conchita Carpio-Morales will once again appear before the Supreme Court this time, as petitioners assailing the highly controversial Anti-Terrorism Law (ATL). Joining them as co-petitioners are UP Law Senior Lecturers Victoria Loanzon, Anthony Charlemagne Yu, Theodore Te (former SC Public Information Officer), Professor Dante Gatmaytan (Director of IAJ), and Assistant Dean, Dr. Jay Batongbacal (Executive Associate Dean and Director of IMLOS),  along with UP Law student Francisco Ashley Acedillo, and University Student Councillor, Tierone James Santos—all…

STATEMENT OF THE U.P. INSTITUTE OF HUMAN RIGHTS RE: HOUSE-TO-HOUSE SEARCH AND FORCED TRANSFER TO ISOLATION FACILITIES OF ASYMPTOMATIC COVID-19 PATIENTS Secretary Eduardo Año has announced a policy to allow the house to house search of COVID19 patients and the taking of said persons to isolation facilities. This will not only literally unlock the door to warrantless searches of our homes, but also open the proverbial floodgates to other human rights violations. Sec. 2, Article III of the Constitution protects the right of the people to be secure in their…