MALACA~AN PALACE M.Af'llV.

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES·

PROC1LAMATlON NO~ 216· .~_ - __ ,,__ - ·

DECl..ARING A STATE OF MARTIAL LAW ANO SUSPENDING THE PRIVILEGE OF THE WRIT OF HA'BEAS CORPUS IN THE WHOLE OF MINDANAO .. -

WHEREAS) Proclamation No. 55, .series of .2016, w9s issued· on 04· September 2016 d~clarlng a s.tate of natii;ln~I em~rgency on aoco1mt ot lawleS:~ violence Jn Mindanao;

WHEREAS, 1Section 1 S, Article VII of the Constitution provides that •x x x In case of i1wasi01R or feb.ellron, When the public safety requl res it, he (the President) may, for a period not exceeding sixty <fays~ suspend' the privilege of :the writ of habeas corpus or pl~oe the Philippines ar any pa~ 1thereef under marttal llllw :X. x X::

WHEREAS', Arti.Cle 134\of the ~evised · .Penal Code, .a's amended b:Y R.A. No. 6968, pnwi9es that'. "the crime offebelliQn qr ,lnsurreciion is committed by rising .and taking arms against the Governrnenffor th·e ptlrpose of removihg f'rom -the allegiance to said. Government pr Its laws, ·tbe territcny. of the Rept:Jblic of the Philippines or any part thereof, of any body of land, naval or ·citfier armed forces. or depriving the Chief t=:xecutive or the Legislature. wholly or partially, of any of their 11owers or prerogatives";

WHEREA~. part of the reasons for the issuance of Proclamation No. 55 was, the series of v iolent .acts oQmmltteq by thei Maute. terrorist group :such as· the attack on the mUitary outpost In Butig, 'Lanao del Sur i n February·2016, killing and waunding severa1·soldiers, an(!! the mass lailbreak in MaraWi City In Atigust 2016, fr~erng their arrested comrades ar.id other detainees;

WHEReAS, foday, 23 May 2017, the .same Maute tefrorist grollP has taken over a hospit~I In Marawi City, L;anao de! :sur, esr~bli~hed ~:E;!vetal checkpein~ within the C ity, burned dawn certain government· and private facilities and inflicted casual ties on the ;par.t of Government forces, an9 started ·flying the flag of the l~lamic State of Iraq and Syrla (ISlS) in several areas, thereby openly attempting to ,'remove from Q'le allegiance to fhe Philippine Government this part of Mindanao and deprive the Ch ref Executive .of his powers and prerogatives te enforce the laws of the land and to maintain g.uqllc or~er and safe~ i ll Mindanao, c;:ons~rtuting tl:le crime ·of

. rebell ion; and

WHEREAS; tht~ .r.ecent att51ck shows. the capability of the M~ute gr~up and ot her rebel groups to sow terror, and caus~ death and _damage to property not only in Lanao del Sur ~ut al~o ln other ·parts ef Mil}c!ana_?.

TI-£.E PREStt>ENT OFTHE PH.ILlPPll'l.ES ·

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NOW, THEREFORE~ J, RODRIGO ROA 'DUTERTE, President of the Republic of the Phfllppiries, by virtue of the powers voa ed m me .by the Constitutiall and by Jaw. do hereby prociairn, as fOtlOW9:

se:cmo 1. Thete ts hefetly declared a state of martial law in lhe Mindanao gfoup of Islands for a period not exceeding. sixty dt~. etfeotive as of the date hento,f,

SE.CT 0 %, The· ,prMlege of the Writ of habeas OOJ1PU8 Shall HkewiH be suspended in the aforesaid aru for the duration of the stata of m•rtlal law.

DONE in the Russian Federation. U\ls ~ day of Ma~i" In the year of our Lord. Two T ousand and Se\!enteen.

1sy the P,1!$l!Jdenl: • vC" Jill> ;c_

:AOoR C. MEOfALO&A Execut.rw Secretary