OLONGAPO CITY–The two Aetas who were the first known individuals ever to be charged with terrorism under the Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA) on Wednesday (Feb. 10) said they were dropping the National Union of Peoples’ Lawyers (NUPL) as their legal counsel.
Japer Gurung and Junior Ramos spoke at an online press briefing organized by the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-Elcac) at the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology facility here where they are detained.
The two said they wanted to get legal service from the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP) and the Public Attorney’s Office (PAO).
“We want NCIP and PAO because we’re starting to see…
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