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Court orders PNP to remove barriers around KOJC compound, stop ‘threatening’ activities

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<p><span style="line-height:normal"></span>MANILA <strong>(UPDATED)</strong> — A Davao City court has ordered the Philippine National Police to remove its barriers around the Kingdom of Jesus Christ compound, saying these hinder the exercise of members’ religious, academic and property rights.</p><p>The temporary protection order issued by Regional Trial Court Branch 15 also directs the PNP “to immediately cease and desist from any act or omission that threatens the life, liberty, or security as well as the properties of the petitioners.&quot;</p><div style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal"><br/></div><div><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/regions/2024/8/27/pnp-begins-drilling-at-alleged-bunker-inside-kojc-compound-lawyer-1407">READ: PNP begins drilling at alleged bunker inside KOJC compound — lawyer</a></div><p>It is yet unclear if that means that the PNP must stop its operations entirely. Local Government Secretary Benhur Abalos told media Tuesday that the police will heed the court order and remove the barricades but that they will not leave the area.</p><p>He also said that search operations for KOJC leader Apollo Quibioloy, who is the subject of arrest warrants for abuse and trafficking cases in courts in Davao City and in Pasig, will continue.</p><p>The order was issued in the context of a July petition filed by KOJC and Jose Maria College Foundation seeking a writ of amparo and alleging that the PNP and the Department of the Interior and Local Government pose a threat to the life, liberty, and security of the petitioners.</p><div style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal"><br/></div><div style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal"><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/2024/8/26/respect-for-human-rights-must-be-priority-in-search-for-quiboloy-advocate-1612">RELATED: Respect for human rights must be priority in search for fugitive Quiboloy — advocate</a></div><div style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal"><br/></div><p>Presiding Judge Mario Duaves noted that personnel of PNP Police Regional Office 11 have barricaded entry and exit points to the KOJC compound in Buhangin, Davao City in their search for Quiboloy and his co-accused in the cases.</p><p>The court said that the barricades “hinder religious and academic activities of petitioners’ officers, members, missionaries and students, among others.”</p><p>It also said that the “restrictions and control” that police imposed around the compound “noticeably trampled not only the property rights of the petitioners, its officers and members but also the exercise of their religious freedom and academic rights, which are guaranteed by the Constitution.”</p><div style="caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0)"><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/2024/8/26/palace-the-law-must-take-its-course-in-cases-vs-quiboloy-1203" style="color:rgb(199, 29, 29)">READ: &#x27;The law must take its course&#x27; in cases vs Quiboloy — Palace</a></div><p>It said that PNP PRO 11 “is hereby ordered to remove all barricades, barriers or blockades that bar the access to and from” the KOJC compound and that it said keeps KOJC members from exercising their religious, academic and propriety rights.</p><div><br/></div><div><strong>RELATED VIDEO</strong></div><div><strong><span class="fr-video fr-deletable fr-fvc fr-dvb fr-draggable" contenteditable="false" draggable="true"><iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/nI5GAhvYlU8?&amp;wmode=opaque&amp;rel=0" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen="" class="fr-draggable"></iframe></span></strong><br/></div>

<p>MANILA — A Davao City court has ordered the Philippine National Police to remove its barriers around the Kingdom of Jesus Christ compound, saying these hinder the exercise of members’ religious, academic and proprietary rights.</p>

MANILA — A Davao City court has ordered the Philippine National Police to remove its barriers around the Kingdom of Jesus Christ compound, saying these hinder the exercise of members’ religious, academic and proprietary rights.