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(Eagle News) — Supreme Court Chief Justice Lucas Bersamin said there is no need for foreign interference in the country’s internal affairs, including the judicial determination of alleged human rights abuses in the Philippine government’s drug war. In a chance interview with reporters on Friday (July19), Bersamin said that on the issue of the Iceland resolution being approved by 18 countries of the 47-member United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), this seemed like a […]
(Eagle News)–The Palace on Monday, March 4, blamed the critics of the administration for the results of a recent Social Weather Stations survey that showed a majority of Filipinos were worried they would become victims of extrajudicial killings. “We understand this concern of our people given the grossly inflated number of drug-related killings falsely peddled and grotesquely sensationalized by the incorrigible critics of the government’s campaign against prohibited drugs,” Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said. According […]
(Eagle News)—Majority of Filipinos believe the administration is serious in solving the issue of extrajudicial killings in the country, a recent Social Weather Stations survey said. According to the Fourth Quarter 2018 Social Weather Survey conducted from December 16 to 19, 2018, the 71 percent of Filipinos who believe this was higher than the 63 percent registered in June 2017. The SWS said the proportion of those who believe the administration is serious about solving […]
(Eagle News) – The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Fatou Bensourda, said that her office will continue to conduct its examination of the situation in the Philippines, even if the country had already initiated action to withdraw from the Rome Statute. In her annual report on preliminary examination activities for year 2018, the Philippines was listed as among the countries in which the ICC had opened preliminary examinations. The report covers the period […]
(Eagle News) — Senator Antonio Trillanes IV on Friday, Sept. 28, urged the International Criminal Court to expedite its investigation into the two communication reports filed by President Rodrigo Duterte’s critics against him in connection with the drug war. Trillanes made the statement after Duterte made a statement that the senator said was tantamount to the chief executive admitting he had a hand in the so-called extrajudicial killings in the country. The Palace has denied […]
(Eagle News)–For Presidential Legal Counsel Salvador Panelo, President Rodrigo Duterte only meant to say in his recent speech that the only issue critics are using against him is the issue of extrajudicial killings. “Dapat kasi kapag sasabihin ng Presidente, titingnan mo iyong mga previous statements niya. Kailangan consistent doon sa dati na niyang sinasabi,” Panelo said. In a speech on Thursday, Sept. 28, Duterte enumerated what he said was his only sin si President. “What […]
(Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte told new career executive service officers to stay away from corruption which he said he had vowed to eliminate. In a speech in Malacanang on Thursday, Sept. 27, Duterte said that the corruption problem in the country is so entrenched that the present level of governance will not rise if this is not stopped. “But the problem is — I would like to tell you now and I’m […]
(Eagle News) — Senator Risa Hontiveros has filed a resolution seeking to declare Aug. 16 as the National Day of Remembrance in commemoration of what she said were the extra-judicial killings in the government’s war on drugs. “We have the duty to remember. Amid the deluge of fake news and the systemic attempt at data obfuscation and revisionism to cover up the thousands who have died under President (Rodrigo) Duterte’s brutal drug war, we must […]
QUEZON City, Philippines – Presidential Spokesman Harry Roque challenged the group Karapatan to file a case in the court instead of writing to the United Nations regarding the issue of extra-judicial killing. Roque said that the steps taken by the group causes dismay and added that it should be the government to take steps to solve the problem of EJK. https://youtu.be/w4XTQa0O5yo
Mariing itinanggi ni Pangulong Rodrigo Duterte na mga pulis at militar ang nasa likod ng umano’y extra judicial killings sa libo- libong katao na napapaslang mula nang maupo ito sa pwesto noong buwan ng Hulyo. Sa kanyang talumpati sa isang pagtitipon sa Tarlac, mariing itinanggi ng pangulo ang mga aksusayong ipinupukol dito. Sa tala ng Philippine National Police, dalawang libo at apat- katao na ang napapaslang ng mga pulis sa gitna ng operasyon kontra droga […]
