Stop the attacks on lawyers
Woke up this morning, at past 3 to be more exact, to be hit by a grim news that an esteemed colleague in the legal profession, Angelo Karlo Guillen, is battling for his life at a hospital. He was assaulted by two masked men who stabbed the side of his head and his back with a screw driver, around 9 pm past, March 3, 2021, at Luna Street, Iloilo City. The attackers fled with his bag containing his lap top. We are made to believe the incident was plain robbery. No, the plot has been hatched in the air conditioned offices of the very institution that is supposedly bankrolled by taxpayers to protect us. I am referring to government particularly its security forces - the police and armed forces. Atty. Guillen, "AK", as he's fondly called, is a human rights lawyer. He stands for the rights of the marginalized and downtrodden. He's an activist lawyer, if you may, and one of the 42 arrested in Iloilo City on Labor Day, May 1, 2020, after he responded to the incident at Jaro...