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By Prince Golez, Manila Reporter
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Friday, February 24, 2017
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MANILA – Sen. Leila de Lima’s “relentless” pronouncements against President Rodrigo Duterte could incur criminal liability for the commission of the crime of sedition, said presidential legal counsel Salvador Panelo.
“Under the law, inciting to sedition refers to a crime committed by someone, who, without taking any direct part in sedition, incites others to inflict any act of hate or revenge against the person of the President by means of speech, among others,” Panelo said on Thursday.
Duterte’s lawyer said that the alleged involvement of the former Davao City mayor in the shadowy “Davao Death Squad”, a vigilante group reportedly responsible for the killing of crime suspects, has been raised and discussed since his May 2016 presidential bid.
“The electorate, in giving President Duterte an overwhelming mandate, has factored such issue. Hence, the people have spoken in repudiating such lie,” he said.
Panelo also urged former Justice secretary de Lima to seek help for her mental and psychological health.
“[I]t is for her best interest that she engages the services of a competent medical professional to assist her in these trying times,” Panelo added.
In a statement released on the same day, de Lima, who was implicated in the Bilibid drug trade, expressed she wants Duterte and secretary Vitaliano Aguirre II of the Department of Justice charged and arrested first before her.
“The single most abominable act of sedition is Aguirre and Duterte inciting acts of hate and violence on the people they identify as no longer humans, while being government by virtue of a Constitution that tells them that no one shall be deprived of life without due process of law,” the lady senator said.
“By calling a part of the population as sub-humans and ordering their killing without due process, this regime has overthrown constitutional order through a political coup and by perverting an electoral mandate in order to perpetrate a policy of premeditated mass murder.”
She also called them “rebels” and “criminals” for ordering the killings of suspected drug suspects./PN
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