(Panay Today via Tara Yap)
National Union of People’s Lawyers (NUPL) Visayas Vice President Rene Estopacio said that Guillen, the counsel in one of the 37 petitions filed with the Supreme Court (SC) against the constitutionality of the Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA) of 2020, survived the attack by two masked men.
Published reports stated the Guillen has been handling several political cases like that involving the Tumandok indigenous people.
“He (Guillen) also represents activists and human rights defenders facing trumped up charges in court including the activists arrested during the police raids in Bacolod City, Negros Occidental in October 2019 and the Tumandoks arrested in Panay in December 2020,” Estopacio said in a statement.