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Adrian Ayalin

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<div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br/></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br/></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br/></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span class="fr-img-caption fr-fic fr-dib" style="width:900px"><span class="fr-img-wrap"><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/1723437547312GUvra1pawAEqOqH.jfif" style="width:900px" class="fr-fic fr-dib"/><span class="fr-inner" style="text-align:left"><span id="isPasted" style="color:rgb(15, 20, 25);letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;display:inline !important;float:none"> The Cordillera Peoples Alliance asks the Supreme court to lift the Anti-Money Laundering Council’s freeze order against the group. </span> </span></span></span>MANILA – The Cordillera Peoples Alliance has asked the Supreme Court to lift a freeze order issued against the group by the Anti-Money Laundering Council last year.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br/></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The group filed a petition for review on certiorari with application for a temporary restraining order or preliminary injunction against the order of the AMLC. </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br/></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">CPA Secretary General Bestang Dekdeken said the freeze order affected the operations of the group in their fight against large-scale mining and construction of dams. </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br/></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">“Halimbawa, tuwing may typhoons o kaya mga natural disasters, kasama kami sa mga immediately nagre-respond sa communities, so ito lang ang isa sa mga programa naming nawala ngayon dahil doon sa freezing ng bank accounts, hindi na kami makatanggap ng pondo,” Dekdeken said.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br/></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">In its petition, the group asked the SC to conduct oral arguments so they can prove that provisions of the Anti-Terrorism Act and the Terrorism Financing Prevention and Suppression Act of 2012 are unconstitutional.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br/></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The CPA argued that the provisions of the laws pertaining to the AMLC’s authorization to issue freeze orders based on the two laws are unconstitutional.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br/></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">In July 2023, CPA Chairperson Windel Bolinget and four other members were tagged as terrorists by the Anti-Terrorism Council. </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br/></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/11/23/23/4-cordillera-activists-challenge-constitutionality-of-anti-terrorism-act">4 Cordillera activists challenge terror-tag, constitutionality of Anti-Terrorism Act</a></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br/></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The group maintains that its officers and members are not involved in terror activities.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br/></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">“Muli kami ay naninindigan na wala kaming ginagawang acts of terror or terrorism acts upang kami ay sabihang mga terorista,” Dekdeken said.</span></div>

<p>The Cordillera Peoples Alliance has asked the Supreme Court to lift a freeze order issued against the group by the Anti-Money Laundering Council last year.</p>

The Cordillera Peoples Alliance has asked the Supreme Court to lift a freeze order issued against the group by the Anti-Money Laundering Council last year.

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Cordillera Peoples Alliance asks Supreme Court to lift AMLC’s freeze order

Adrian Ayalin,

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Published Aug 12, 2024 12:21 PM PHT

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Updated Aug 12, 2024 12:39 PM PHT

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