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(Eagle News) — Senator Leila De Lima was replaced as chair of the Senate committee on justice and human rights Monday night, after majority of the senators voted to declare as vacant the chairmanship and membership of the said committee. There were 16 senators who voted “yes” to the motion of Senator Manny Pacquiao to declare the membership and chairmanship of the controversial senate committee vacant. Four senators voted “no” while two more abstained. It […]
by Ayee Macaraig Agence France Presse MANILA, Philippines (AFP) — The Philippines faced calls Friday to investigate its firebrand president after a self-confessed hitman alleged Rodrigo Duterte ordered a thousand opponents and suspected criminals murdered when he was a city mayor. Edgar Matobato told a Senate inquiry on Thursday that he and a group of policemen killed some 1,000 people in Davao city on Duterte’s orders from 1988-2013, with the politician himself shooting dead one of […]
(Eagle News) — Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre II branded as “lies and fabrications” the allegations made by a witness produced by senator Leila De Lima before the Senate, saying that these were products of a “fertile and coached imagination.” He also branded the presentation by De Lima of witness Edgar Matobato, a self-confessed hired killer, as a “desperate” move meant to divert public attention from allegations of illegal drug connection being hurled against the […]
(Eagle News) — Senator Leila de Lima defended the presentation of a new witness in the continuation of the hearings on extrajudicial killings, claiming that this had nothing to do with the Liberal Party or any plot to embarrass President Duterte. On Thursday (September 15) , she presented a self-confessed hired assassin and alleged member of a death squad in Davao City who testified before the Senate on alleged extrajudicial killings in Davao City. […]
MANILA, Philippines (Eagle News) – Iimbestigahan at parurusahan ng pamunuan ng Pambansang Pulisya o ng Philippine National Police ang sinumang alagad ng batas na masusumpungang lumabag sa Rules of Engagement. Ito ang tiniyak ni PNP Chief Director General Ronald ‘Bato’ Dela Rosa sa kaniyang mensahe sa isinagawang Senate investigation kaugnay ng mga balita sa extrajudicial killings sa bansa. Una nang binigyang-diin ni Dela Rosa sa mga pulis na nagsagawa ng police operations lalo na sa iligal na […]
Ni Meanne Corvera (Eagle News) — Hindi na naitago ni Philippine National Police (PNP) chief Director General Ronald Dela Rosa ang maglabas ng sama ng loob sa pagdidiin sa kanila sa extrajudicial killings o summary executions. Sa ikalawang araw ng imbestigasyon ng senado sa mga kaso ng extra judicial killings at mga summary executions, umangal na si Dela Rosa. Sa kabila ng kanilang pagtatrabaho at panganib sa buhay ng mga pulis, marami pa rin ang […]
(Reuters) — The United States State Department said on Monday (August 8) the United States is concerned about extrajudicial killings in the Philippines, where officials say more than 400 suspected drug dealers have been killed by police since President Rodrigo Duterte took over. “We are concerned by these detentions as well as the extra judicial killing of individuals suspected to be involved in drug activity in the Philippines,” State Department spokeswoman Elizabeth Trudeau said […]
MANILA, Philippines (PIA) – Vice President Leni Robredo issued a statement re extrajudicial killings saying, “We support President Duterte’s declaration that the fight against drugs and crime must be done with an uncompromising exercise of the rule of law. In her statement, Vice President Robredo noted, however, that there have been over a hundred cases of drug-related reports of killings in less than a month. “While we are one with the fight against drugs, we […]
