Saturday, July 04, 2020

What excludes terrorist acts?

What is not a "terrorist act" according to Australia's Criminal Code of 1995? According to Australia's anti terror law under their Criminal Code of 1995, a terrorist act does not cover engaging in advocacy, protest, dissent or industrial action where a person does not have the intention to urge force or violence or cause harm to others. Meanwhile, under the Philippines anti terror law Republic Act No. 11479, what shall NOT be considered "terrorism" are the following: Terrorism shall not include advocacy, protest, dissent stoppage of work or industrial or mass action or other similar exercises of civil and political rights, which are not intended to cause death or serious physical harm to a person, to endanger a person;s life, or to create a serious serious risk to public safety. It seems the Philippines only nearly copied what is NOT considered a terrorist act from Australia's anti terror law. In fact what is NOT terrorism, is more expansive under the Philippine anti terror law than that of the Australian anti-terror law.