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'[The Anti-Terror Law] does not provide safeguards for innocent persons seeking asylum in the Philippines to not be wrongfully classified as terrorists.'
In 2019, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees reported that around 26 million individuals were forced to leave their countries to seek protection in other states.
This protection enjoyed by persons of concern, however, could be under threat now that the controversial Philippine Anti-Terrorism bill has become a law. This national asylum mechanism, however, could be undermined by the proposed powers of the Anti-Terror Council to designate terrorists. Section 25 of the Anti-Terrorism Law empowers the ATC to designate persons as terrorists upon finding of probable cause of their intent or commission of a terrorist act. Given this provision, the ATC could designate a person based on the intelligence that it collected, regardless of the information coming from RSD assessments.
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