Batasan and Commonwealth “no rally zones.”

By Belarmino Dabalos Saguing, Rome, Italy 19.07.2013 1905 ICT

News item : QC ban on SONA rallies stays

Quezon City judge has maintained that the City Directive banning rallies on Commonwealth Avenue leading to the Batasang Pambansa. Earlier this week, the city’s public order and safety department chief Elmo San Diego denied Bayan’s request to hold  protest actions on Batasan Road near the House of Representatives, venue of the SONA. 

The city government also denied a similar request from Freedom from Debt Coalition, which planned to hold a rally near Ever Gotesco mall on Commonwealth.

Bayan denounced the directive as a grave abuse of discretion on the part of the city government, which insisted that Batasan and Commonwealth were “no rally zones.”


Read more: http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/448535/qc-ban-on-sona-rallies-stays#ixzz2ZVdey5dv 

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