WHEREAS, by
virtue of Proclamation No. 2456, the privilege of the writ of habeas
corpus remains suspended in the two autonomous regions of Mindanao and
in all other places with respect to — chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
"persons at present detained as well as others who may hereafter be
similarly detained for all cases involving the crimes of insurrection,
rebellion, subversion, conspiracy or proposal to commit such crimes,
inciting to insurrection or rebellion, sedition, conspiracy to commit
sedition, inciting to sedition, illegal assemblies, illegal
associations, direct assaults, resistance and disobedience to a person
in authority or the agents of such person, tumults and other
disturbances of public orders, unlawful use of means of publication and
unlawful utterances, destructive arson, crimes involving destruction,
unlawful picketing, unlawful strike, and economic sabotage, and for all
other crimes or offenses committed by them in furtherance or on the
occasion thereof, or incident thereto, or in connection therewith, or
with respect to any person whose arrest or detention is, in the
judgment of the President, required by public safety as a means to
repel or quell the existing rebellion in the country." chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
WHEREAS, Presidential Decree No. 1877, as amended by Presidential
Decree No. 1877-A, effectuates and implements Proclamation No. 2045, as
amended by Proclamation No. 2045-A; chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
WHEREAS, it thus becomes necessary to further amend Presidential Decree
No. 1877, as amended by Presidential Decree No. 1877-A, in view of the
amendment introduced by Proclamation No. 2456. chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines,
by virtue of the powers vested in me by the Constitution, do hereby
decree:cralaw:red
Section 1. Section 1 of Presidential Decree No. 1877,
as amended by Presidential Decree No. 1877-A, is hereby further amended
to read as follows:cralaw:red
"Sec. 1. All cases involving the crimes of
insurrection, rebellion, subversion, conspiracy or proposal to commit
such crimes, inciting to insurrection or rebellion, sedition,
conspiracy to commit sedition, inciting to sedition, illegal
assemblies, illegal associations, direct assaults, resistance and
disobedience to a person in authority or the agents of such person,
alarms and scandals, tumults and other disturbances of public orders,
unlawful use of means of publication and unlawful utterances,
destructive arson, crimes involving destruction, unlawful picketing,
unlawful strike, economic sabotage, and all other crimes and offenses
committed by them in furtherance or on the occasion thereof, or
incident thereto, or in connection therewith, shall be referred to the
Provincial or City Fiscal, or to the proper court for preliminary
examination or investigation in accordance with existing laws."
Section 2. All laws, decrees, letters of
instructions, executive or administrative orders, rules and regulations
inconsistent with this Decree are hereby repealed, amended or modified
accordingly.
Section 3. This Decree shall take effect after
fifteen (15) days following its publication in the Official Gazette.
DONE in the City of Manila,
Philippines, this 5th day of October, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen
hundred and eighty-five.
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