A total of 353 prosecutors in different parts of the country have been appointed to lead the investigation of media-related cases being handled by the Presidential Task Force on Media Security.
Department of Justice Secretary and PTFoMS chairman Menardo Guevarra issued a department order on Aug. 28, directing the 353 prosecutors to become concurrent prosecutors under Administrative Order No. 01 that created PTFoMS.
The prosecutors had been previously designated to investigate cases assigned to the Inter-Agency Committee on Extra-Legal Killings,
Enforced Disappearances, Torture and other Grave Violations of theRight to Life, Liberty and Security of Persons, which, former President Benigno Aquino III created by virtue of AO No. 35 in 2012.
Under their new assignment, the 353 prosecutors will spearhead the Special Investigation Task Groups tasked through AO1, which President Rodrigo R. Duterte issued in October 2016 in a bid to solve media killings in the country.
