MANILA, Philippines — Advocacy groups and human rights defenders on Tuesday urged the Supreme Court to come up with measures that will also protect not only members of the legal profession but of advocates as well.
In a submission to Chief Justice Alexander Gesmundo, they said based on the report submitted by the National Union of Peoples’ Lawyers (NUPL), 84 of the 147 incidents of attacks or 57 percent were committed against lawyers engaged in human rights and public interest litigation.
“These attacks against human rights lawyers violate the basic principle that lawyers shall not be identified with their clients or their clients’ causes as a result of discharging their funct…
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