Philippines: New anti-terror legislation comes into force

The Human Security Act adopted last March, containing a new definition of terrorism offences and activities, entered into force on 15 July. The former Vice-President and several NGOs filed petitions to the Supreme Court alleging its unconstitutionality. Human Security...

Thailand: Interim Government proposes new Internal Security Act

In mid-June, the Interim Government proposed a new Internal Security Act, which would give broad law enforcement and administrative powers to the Royal Army Commander, as the Director of a revived Internal Security Operations Command. These exceptional powers would be...

Argentina: New law criminalizes financing of terrorism

On 13 June, the Argentinean Congress adopted a new bill to criminalize financing of terrorism. The bill was strongly criticised by NGOs for containing a very vague definition of the offence of “illicit terrorist association”. The Centro de Estudios Legales y Sociales...
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