If in trouble, run to SC?

Former and incumbent lawmakers under the Makabayan bloc are asking the Supreme Court to issue writs of amparo and habeas data against alleged military and police harassment.
      

In a 37-page plea, the petitioners said the civil society organizations to which they belong have been tagged by the government forces as "communist front organizations" while their leaders and members have been targets of attack under the government's counterinsurgency programs.

To back their claims of harassment, killings, and abduction of their members, the petitioners cited  the findings of Prof. Philip Alston, the former United Nations Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Execution, in his Report to the UN Human Rights Council on his February 2007 Mission to the Philippines.
      

The petitioners said the inclusion of their names on the lists and pictures in the police’s “rogues gallery” provided to them by the local PNP Criminal Investigation Group was considered threats to their life, liberty and security.
      

"There is no other way by which these information can be obtained than by subjecting the petitioners under undue and malicious scrutiny or surveillance,” read the petition. -end-