QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News) — Philippine National Police Chief Director General Ronald Dela Rosa said that he would ask President Rodrigo Duterte’s permission before furnishing the Commission on Human Rights the case folders on those who were killed in the administration’s war on drugs. Dela Rosa said that while the PNP would cooperate with the CHR, which is looking into the deaths, it still needs the President’s permission because all investigations into drug-related killings […]
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Some 40 UNHRC member-countries concerned about drug-related killings, death penalty reimposition in PH
QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News) — Several members of the United Nations Human Rights Council expressed grave concern over the alleged incidents of extra-judicial killings in the Philippines, this after Senator Alan Peter Cayetano gave an account of the human rights record of the Philippines before the international body in Geneva, Switzerland. The delegates from the United States and Australia said that it was important that the government look into the alleged 7,000 reported incidents of extra-judicial killings to identify […]
Panelo: Killing spree caused by narco syndicates
(Eagle News)– Chief presidential legal counsel Salvador Panelo insisted that the spate of killings were not done by law enforcers, but are caused by drug syndicates silencing their cohorts who could possibly reveal their identities. “Ang nakikita natin ngayon ay patayan between syndicates. Iyan ang lagi nating i-emphasize at nakakalimutan ng lahat na iyong mga nasa sindikato–unang-una nagkaka-onsehan kaya nagkakapatayan,” Panelo told reporters in a chance interview. “Pangalawa, more importantly I think because of the […]





