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PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 1735
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PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 1735 -
IMPOSING ADDITIONAL PENALTIES FOR REBELLION, INSURRECTION,
SEDITION AND SUBVERSION COMMITTED WITHIN OR OUTSIDE PHILIPPINE TERRITORY
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(REPEALED
BY EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 187, S. 1987)
WHEREAS, it is imperative in the public interest to impose for the
offenses of rebellion, insurrection, sedition and subversion
whether committed within or outside the territory of the Republic
of the Philippines, the additional penalties of forfeiture of the
rights of citizenship, and of real or personal property belonging to
the accused.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the
Philippines by virtue of the powers in me vested by the Constitution,
do hereby decree and order the following:cralaw:red
Section 1. Any person found guilty of subversion,
rebellion or insurrection, or sedition, or conspiracy to commit
rebellion, or insurrection, or sedition whether Committed within or
outside the territorial jurisdiction of the Philippines, shall suffer
the penalty of forfeiture of his rights as a citizen of the
Philippines, if he is a Philippine citizen, and confiscation of his
property, real or personal, in favor of the State, in addition to the
penalties prescribed for the offense under existing law.
Section 2. After the arraignment of an accused who is
charged with any of the offenses mentioned in Section 1, the trial may
proceed notwithstanding the absence of the accused, provided that he
has been duly notified and his failure to appear is unjustified.
Judgment may be promulgated in absentia and the penalty of confiscation
of his properties in the Philippines may be immediately executed.
Done in the City of Manila,
this 12th day of September, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen
hundred and eighty.
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