A LAWMAKER urged Monday the House committee on justice to expedite deliberations on a bill imposing life imprisonment for the crimes of extralegal killing and enforced disappearance, victims of which include members of media.

“The Supreme Court itself noted that there has yet to be a law passed by Congress defining extra-judicial killing and enforced disappearance,” said Iloilo Representative Jerry Treñas, principal author of House Bill 3594, or the “Anti-Extralegal Killing and Enforced Disappearance Law.”

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Source: Sunstar.com.ph

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