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The Integrated Bar of the Philippines, the largest group of lawyers in the country, and U.N. rights officials have also expressed concern along with nationalist groups and media watchdogs.

Abdiel Fajardo, national president of the Integrated Bar of the Philippines, told The Washington Post that publication as a requirement for treaty validation “cannot be found in our statute books.”

Legal experts and the Integrated Bar of the Philippines, the country’s largest lawyers’ group, have expressed alarm over the legal moves against Trillanes for offences that were cancelled by a 2011 amnesty approved by Duterte’s predecessor and congress.

Legal experts and the Integrated Bar of the Philippines, the largest lawyers' group in the country, have expressed alarm over the legal moves against Trillanes for offenses that were canceled by a 2011 amnesty approved by Duterte's predecessor and Congress.

The Integrated Bar of the Philippines expressed alarm Monday over the “overt audacity to publicly arrest and incarcerate” Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV for offenses that have been abolished by an amnesty approved by President Rodrigo Duterte’s predecessor and Congress and which led to the dismissal of criminal proceedings against the senator.