Hukayin: The constitutionality of introducing a law penalizing the denial of the Marcos regime’s atrocities

• Main Author: Ramos, Dan Christian E.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 2017
• Subjects: Constitutional law > Philippines; Freedom of speech > Philippines; Constitutional Law
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_masteral/7199
• Institution: De La Salle University

This study is inspired by the uproar brought about by the move of President Duterte to allow former President Marcos to be given a hero’s burial in the Libingan ng mga Bayani. Many associated the move with acts of historical revisionism, as it essentially sanitized the image of the deposed dictator....