MANILA, Philippines — A certain “Captain Ri” figured in the fourth part of the oral arguments on the petitions against the Anti-Terrorism Act, which took place at the Supreme Court on Tuesday, to illustrate the issue of whether preparatory acts to commit terrorism should be punished or not.
Aside from Section 4 of the law that defines terrorism, petitioners are also challenging Section 5 (Threat to commit terrorism), Section 6 (Planning, training, preparing and facilitating the commission of terrorism), Section 9 (inciting to commit terrorism, and Section 10 (recruitment to and membership in a terrorist organization, Section 11 (foreign terrorist), Section 12 (providing material sup…
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