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(Eagle News) – Malacanang again rejected calls for a probe on alleged unlawful killings in the country by United Nations human rights experts, saying this was an “outrageous interference” on Philippine sovereignty. Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said that the call for a probe by 11 allegedly independent UN experts was based on a “biased and false recital of facts.” The 11 UN experts calling for a probe include Agnes Callamard, the UN Special Rapporteur […]
(Eagle News)–The Palace on Saturday, June 22, reiterated the government was always implementing the law even without foreigners telling it to do so. Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque made the comment after 38 states called on the Philippines to put a stop to what they said were drug killings and to cooperate in an international probe during the 38th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council on Tuesday, June 18. The 38 nations– Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, […]
(Eagle News) — Malacañang has denied it had a hand in the sudden cancellation of Chief Insp. Jovie Espenido’s reassignment to Iloilo. In a statement, Presidential Spokesperson Ernesto Abella said the move to cancel was done by the “leadership of the Philippine National Police following the established policies and procedures in the transfer, reassignment and designation of their personnel.” The PNP said a provincial police force should be led by a police official with the […]
(Eagle News) — Chief Insp. Jovie Espenido will no longer be reassigned to Iloilo. Chief Supt. Cesar Binag, Police Regional Office 6 director, said this in a radio interview on Saturday, after receiving what he said was an official document from the Philippine National Police higher-ups “that cancels the reassignment” of Espenido in Iloilo City. President Duterte had called Iloilo the “bedrock of drugs” in the Visayas, and had tagged its mayor, Jed Mabilog, […]
MANILA, Philippines (Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte said on Wednesday that his government is willing to face any inquiry into the deaths of hundreds of suspected drug dealers and users as human rights groups express alarm over extrajudicial killings. Duterte said in a speech at the National Police Office, that quote: “We are willing to submit ourselves for an investigation before anybody — adding some of the killings were carried out by drug gangs. […]
