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(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday said he would “personally invite” the Human Rights Commissioner of the United Nations to set up a satellite office in the country. Duterte made the announcement amid repeated criticisms from some affiliated with the Catholic church and the opposition that there were human rights violations in the conduct of police operations in line with the President’s war against illegal drugs. It also came after the House of […]
QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News) — A Caloocan congressman is proposing the creation of a commission that will review the administration’s war on illegal drugs. Caloocan City Rep. Edgar Erice also asked the Duterte administration to change tactics and adopt an alternative solution for the country’s illegal drug problem. He said that the vast number of killings done during the war against drugs should serve as signal that it is about time to change tactics. […]
(Eagle News) – Paraffin tests done by the police on the slain Grade 11 student Kian Loyd delos Santos showed he was negative for gunpowder nitrates, which meant he did not fire a gun contrary to the arresting policemen’s claim. “Both hands of the cadaver do not contain gunpowder nitrates,” said the results of the Philippine National Police’s paraffin tests on Kian’s body. “The qualitative examination conducted on the paraffin cast taken from both hands […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte on Wednesday hit back at his predecessor, Benigno Aquino III, after he said nothing much changed since the war on drugs under the current administration. “Sabi ni PNoy, parang walang nangyari. Sige, pumasok ka sa droga PNoy, pag di ka putulan ng ulo, ga*o ka,” he said, making reference to Aquino’s nickname. He noted that the aides of Aquino and his presidential heir Mar Roxas, who ran for president […]
A mayor named as being involved in the narcotics trade was shot dead in a police raid Sunday, authorities said. President Rodrigo Duterte has singled out some local officials, policemen and judges as part of the drug trade in a crackdown that has made him popular with many Filipinos Among those Duterte named was Reynaldo Parojinog, mayor of Ozamiz city, who was killed along with 11 others in a dawn raid on his home, police […]
“Find me a law which says I cannot threaten criminals with death,” dares Duterte (Eagle News)– President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday (July 17) lambasted Ombudsman Conchita Carpio Morales after she criticized him during an interview with Japan’s NHK World, saying he was “goading people to kill people.” “Si Ombudsman ba, Conchita Morales blew her top and castigated me publicly for (me) just mentioning killing criminals,” he said during a speech at the mass oath-taking […]
(Eagle News) — The Moro Islamic Liberation Front is set to formally join the government in its fight against illegal drugs, a year after President Rodrigo Duterte launched his crackdown on those selling the substances he said was the cause of high crime rates in general. The rebel group is set to sign an “agreement of protocol cooperation” with the government Friday afternoon to formalize the move, Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency director Isidro Lapena said […]
United States President Donald Trump praised his Philippine counterpart Rodrigo Duterte over his drug war, reports said Tuesday. During an April 29 call that focused mostly on North Korea’s nuclear and ballistic missile program, Trump congratulated Duterte on doing an “unbelievable job on the drug problem.” Trump also extended an invitation for “good man” Duterte to visit the White House “anytime you want to come,” before the two leaders are set to meet in the […]
Universal Periodic Review draft makes 257 recommendations (Eagle News) — The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) working group on periodic reviews has made a draft report recommending that the Philippines allow the United Nations Special Rapporteur to probe the human rights situation in the country without conditions, and for the country not to reimpose the death penalty. The Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of the UNHRC’s working group was presented by Switzerland, Paraguay and […]
A high-level Philippine delegation presented the country’s human rights situation during the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) before the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva, Switzerland, and defended President Rodrigo Duterte’s drug war. The meeting began with Filipino Senator Alan Cayetano, denouncing what he called a campaign by rights advocates and the media to distort perceptions of the government’s anti-drug effort. “There is no new wave of killings in the Philippines,” Cayetano told […]
(Eagle News) — Malacanang has put into question the objectivity and professionalism of the United Nations Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions Dr. Agnes Callamard. A Palace spokesperson pointed out that her visit to the Philippines in an unofficial capacity mainly to criticize the country’s drug war, was done while a Philippine delegation had been sent to the UN office in Geneva to report and explain the human rights situation in the […]
