Is it legal to ban rallies during quarantine? Human rights lawyer Edre Olalia said the Bayanihan To Heal As One Act as well as the public health law, Republic Act No. 11332 or the Mandatory Reporting of Notifiable Diseases Act, do not prohibit rallies.
Edre Olalia, the president of the National Union Peoples' Lawyers , said his group and other allied groups will stand their ground and proceed with the protest.
Without citing the specific law, Guevarra insisted that rallies in quarantine"may give rise to penal sanctions under existing public health laws, not under criminal laws." RA 11332 punishes non-cooperation in a public health crisis, but the judge said Section 9 of the law refers only to the people and entities who must report the notifiable disease, and they do not include the activists charged.Police have also used Article 151 of the Revised Penal Code or the law that prohibits disobedience to authority, to arrest quarantine violators.
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