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(Eagle News)–The Palace on Saturday, Dec. 14, slammed a United States Senate panel approval of a resolution calling for the release of Senator Leila de Lima and an end to the alleged harassment of Rappler’s Maria Ressa, calling it a “brazen and heedless affront against the dignity” of the country’s sovereignty. “It is an undisguised and outrageous intrusion to a sovereign state. There can be no excuse for the US Senate Committee not to know […]
(Eagle News) — The United States Senate foreign relations committee has approved a resolution calling for Senator Leila de Lima’s release and an end to the Philippine government’s alleged harassment of Rappler’s Maria Ressa. Senator Dick Durbin made the announcement in a Tweet on his official account: “Glad to see Senate Foreign Relations Committee pass @SenMarkey’s resolution, that I proudly cosponsored, calling on the government of the Philippines to end the troubling detention of Filipina […]
No one believes you anymore, she says (Eagle News)–Senator Leila de Lima slammed President Rodrigo Duterte anew after he said the drug claims against her were true. “Well, we all know what his oath is worth,” De Lima said. According to De Lima, the President for instance, swore to defend the Constitution, including the Bill of Rights but instead “waged a drug war that summarily executed thousands of Filipinos, depriving them of life without due […]
(Eagle News)–Senator Leila de Lima has reiterated her call terminally-ill Persons Deprived of Liberty should be granted “compassionate parole” or medical parole based on humanitarian and medical grounds. In reintroducing Senate Bill (SB) No.1146, De Lima said terminally-ill PDLs should have a chance to serve out their sentence under their families’ care or seek better medical care outside prison. According to De Lima, institutionalizing the grant of parole to the select PDLs “also rationalizes the […]
(Eagle News) — Senator Leila de Lima “must be hallucinating,” the Palace said on Thursday, Oct. 31. Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo made the statement after De Lima urged President Rodrigo Duterte, whom she called a “liar,” to formally declare that he was unable to discharge his functions as the chief executive, and to let Vice President Leni Robredo take over. “But that is precisely the problem, is it not, Mr. President? First, you are not […]
(Eagle News)– Senator Leila de Lima has slammed a proposal in the House of Representatives to place newly hired workers in a two-year probationary status before they are regularized. In a statement, De Lima said the “ominous fog for a” proposal by Probinsiyano Ako party-list Rep. Jose Singson Jr. “will not only enshroud the actual issue – the abusive ENDO practices – but will also expose our workers to labor malpractice and put them in […]
(Eagle News)–Senator Leila de Lima has thanked a United States Senate panel for its move to ban Philippine government officials allegedly behind her detention. In a statement, De Lima thanked US Senators Dick Durbin, Patrick Leahy and “many other champions of justice and democracy, for reminding us that the world is still watching.” “The proposal of US Senators Dick Durbin and Patrick Leahy to impose a visa ban against abusive Philippine government officials is a […]
(Eagle News)–The proposal to ban the entry to the United States of Philippine government officials allegedly behind the detention of Senator Leila de Lima is a violation of the US Constitution. This is according to Senate President Tito Sotto, who slammed US Senators Richard Durbin and Patrick Leahy, who were reportedly behind the amendment to the Fiscal Year 2020 State and Foreign Operations Appropriations Bill that seeks the travel ban. “Article 1, section 9 (paragraph) […]
(Eagle News)–The Palace on Friday, Sept. 27, slammed a United States Senate panel’s move to amend a bill that aims to ban the entry of Philippine government officials allegedly behind the detention of Senator Leila de Lima. Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said the move was a “brazen attempt to intrude into our country’s domestic legal processes” and an “insult” to the competence and capacity of Philippine authorities even as he said the Philippines will not […]
(Eagle News)–A United States Senate panel has approved an amendment to a bill that aims to prohibit the entry of Philippine government officials involved in the imprisonment of Senator Leila de Lima. “Good to see the Senate Appropriations Committee pass my amendment with @SenatorLeahy today to prohibit entry to any Philippine Government Officials involved in the politically motivated imprisonment of Filipina Senator Leila de Lima in 2017. We must #FreeLeilaNow,” US Senator Dick Durbin said […]
(Eagle News)–Releasing “truly reformed” convicts of heinous crimes should not be considered an injustice against their victims. Senator Leila de Lima had this to say on Sunday, Sept. 22, as she expressed hope the new implementing rules and regulations of the Good Conduct Time Allowance law were merely “meant to be a temporary solution to prevent irreversible damage caused by the ‘GCTA-for-sale’ fiasco that hounded this administration.” She said the GCTA law, which reduces the […]
(Eagle News)–The “remedial move” of revising the implementing rules and regulations of the Good Conduct Time and Allowance law is but a mere “cover-up” of the “most scandalous incident of corruption” in the Menardo Guevarra-led Department of Justice and this administration. This is according to Senator Leila de Lima, who issued the statement following the signing of the IRR revised by a joint DOJ and Department of the Interior and Local Government panel given the […]
