Tortured Aetas seek SC help against anti-terror law

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MANILA, Philippines – Mauled, placed inside a sack and hung upside down, suffocated with a plastic bag and cigarette smoke, and forced to eat his own feces to make him admit that he is a member of the New People’s Army.

That was Japer Gurung’s plight contained in a petition-in-intervention filed before the Supreme Court.

It asked that they be allowed to join the call to declare as unconstitutional the controversial Republic Act 11479 or the Anti-Terrorism Act of 2020.

Gurung is joined in the petition by Junior Ramos, his co-accused for violating the anti-terror law following the attack against the members of the 73rd Infantry Division of the Philippine Army.

In their complain…

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