Boxing icon and Philippine Senator Manny Pacquiao has voted ‘yes’ on a controversial new legislation that Filipinos worry will be used to crackdown on dissidents, activists and opponents of President Rodrigo Duterte (per Bad Left Hook).
Bill No. 1083 has been championed as an ‘Anti-Terrorism Law’ by Duterte. According to a Senate press release the bill provides, “a strong legal backbone to support the country’s criminal justice response to terrorism, provide law enforcers the much-needed tools to protect the people from the threat of terrorism and, at the same time, safeguard the rights of those accused of crime.