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(Eagle News) — Members of the Liberal Party including Vice President Leni Robredo drew flak from netizens after a picture of them happily posing at the Holocaust memorial in Berlin, Germany circulated online. Apart from Robredo, Senator Francis Pangilinan, Ifugao Rep. Teddy Baguilat Jr., Quezon City Rep. Jose Christopher Belmonte, Dinagat Islands Rep. Kaka Bag-ao, Marikina Rep. Miro Quimbo and former Budget Secretary Florencio Abad were seen smiling at the monument meant to honor those […]
(Eagle News) — Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he brought up “human rights, rule of law and specifically extrajudicial killings” during a conversation with President Rodrigo Duterte on the sidelines of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations Summit. Speaking in a press conference on Tuesday, Trudeau said he told Duterte he was “concerned with human rights,” and he “impressed upon” him the “need for upholding rule of law.” This was despite the repeated denials […]
(Eagle News) — Vice-President Leni Robredo and former President Benigno Aquino III led Liberal Party leaders and members during their gathering opposing extrajudicial killings and criticizing what they feared was the return of martial law in the whole country under the administration of President Rodrigo Duterte. The LP gathering pressed for justice for the victims of extrajudicial killings and alleged abuses of the Duterte administration as they commemorated the 45th anniversary of the Martial […]
CHR to issue request “one more time” (Eagle News) — The Department of the Interior and Local Government said on Friday that President Rodrigo Duterte has thumbed down the Commission on Human Rights request to view police case folders on supposed extrajudicial killings. “Yes. It’s something like that,” DILG officer-In-charge Catalino Cuy said in a chance interview when asked if Duterte would heed the CHR’s request. He said he already informed CHR Chairman Chito Gascon […]
(Eagle News) — Presidential Spokesperson Ernesto Abella on Thursday expressed “profound dismay” over the death of 14-year-old Reynaldo de Guzman, as he admitted the “whole nation was in the process of rethinking how we do things” as a result. “It is with profound dismay that we regard (De Guzman’s) disturbing death..,” he said during a news briefing. According to Abella, the National Bureau of Investigation has “already been ordered to conduct a thorough investigation and case […]
(Eagle News) — Net satisfaction rating of the Duterte administration’s performance rose in the latest Social Weather Stations survey. From a +61 in December 2016, the second time SWS conducted a poll on the Duterte administration’s performance, overall net satisfaction rating increased to a +66 in the poll done from March 25 to March 28. The +66 overall net satisfaction rating was the same net satisfaction rating the Duterte administration received in September 2016, the […]
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 […]
Ni Meanne Corvera Eagle News Service “Black propaganda–plain and simple.” Ito ang paglalarawan ng Malacanang sa isinampang kasong kriminal sa International Criminal Court laban kay Pangulong Rodrigo Duterte at 11 pang iba dahil sa mga umano’y extrajudicial killings sa bansa kaugnay ng kampanya ng gobyerno laban sa iligal na droga. “For one, it’s intended to smear the name of the President,” wika ni chief presidential legal counsel Salvador Panelo nang makapanayam sa CNN Philippines. Ayon kay Panelo, hindi rin siya naniniwalang […]
(Eagle News) — Kind of farfetched. This was how the spokesperson of the Philippine National Police described the allegations made by two active and former police officials, as reported by Reuters on Wednesday. “Ang kanilang mga (supposed) allegations, medyo malayo sa katotohanan. (The killings of drug suspects are) not being ordered by the organization. Di parte ng PNP ang kanilang sinasabi dun,” Senior Supt. Dionardo Carlos said in an interview over GMA News TV on Thursday. He also […]
(Eagle News) — Net satisfaction with the administration’s campaign against illegal drugs remains high, with 70 percent saying the government was “serious” about solving the problem of extra-judicial killings in the country. According to results from the latest Social Weather Stations survey, 78 percent were satisfied with the drug war, which only recently resumed following the kidnap-slay of Korean businessman Jee Ick Joo reportedly by rogue policemen who used the war as an excuse to commit the crime. […]
By Meanne Corvera Eagle News Service Sen. Poe, kinastigo ang PNP sa paninisi sa media ukol sa maling report sa EJKs MANILA, Philippines (Eagle News) — Kinastigo ni Senador Grace Poe ang Philippine National Police matapos na namang isisi sa media ang umanoy maling report sa mga kaso ng extra judicial killings. Nauna nang naglabas ng datos si PNP Chief Director General Ronaldo “Bato” Dela Rosa at iginiit na umaabot lang sa mahigit isanlibo at […]
(Eagle News) — There are no extrajudicial killings in the country. This was the statement of the Philippine National Police on Monday, as media reports labelling all killings as extrajudicial continued to proliferate. In a press conference, the PNP clarified that extrajudicial killings were necessarily “state-sponsored.” No killing in the country, however, they said, was state-sponsored. “It is the media that is insistent in (using the term),” PNP Director General Ronald dela Rosa said. Chief […]
