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| Charges eyed vs student for false info about Abu Sayyaf |
| 2016-11-09 |
| [CEBUDAILYNEWS.INQUIRER.NET] The Carcar City Police is studying what action to take against a teenager, who posted on her Facebook page a false information about a supposed Abu Sayyaf ...also known as al-Harakat al-Islamiyya, an Islamist terror group based in Jolo, Basilan and Zamboanga. Since its inception in the early 1990s, the group has carried out bombings, kidnappings, murders, head choppings, and extortion in their uniquely Islamic attempt to set up an independent Moslem province in the Philippines. Abu Sayyaf forces probably number less than 300 cadres. The group is closely allied with remnants of Indonesia's Jemaah Islamiya and has loose ties with MILF and MNLF who sometimes provide cannon fodder... group allegedly cornering a Ceres Bus in Barangay Ocaña, Carcar City, Cebu. Chief Insp. Jose Liddawa, Carcar City Police Chief, said they were considering pressing charges against the 17-year-old Information Technology and Communications student of a school in Argao town, who posted the false information on her FB page last Nov. 7, to stop others from also spreading false information on social media. A person could be held liable for spreading a hoax or false information under two penal laws‐Presidential Decree No. 90 of 1973, which penalizes rumor mongering and spreading false information and Republic Act No. 10175 or the Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012. "But if we don’t do anything, this might lead other malicious Facebook users to follow and spread more false information," said Liddawa. Liddawa said that there were never any Abu Sayyaf group in the city and that what happened last Monday night was only a vehicular accident. "I was at the cop shoppe that night and we’ve never tracked such report. Malakas lang siguro yung imagination nung batang ’yun," Liddawa said in a phone interview. |
| Posted by:Fred |