Suspicion over armed gov’t agents sparks people power at Iloilo village

Credit to Author: jespinosa| Date: Sun, 07 Jul 2019 12:35:10 +0000

Screenshots of the two men who were accosted and briefly held by officials and residents of Barangay Bito-on in Jaro District in Iloilo City after they went to the house of a leader of a militant urban poor organization (Contributed photos)

Officials and residents of a village here on Sunday (July 4) accosted and briefly detained two armed men believed to be targeting a leader of a militant urban poor organization.

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Slain Tagum lawyer was victim of impunity, says brother

Credit to Author: dmorcoso| Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2019 03:00:46 +0000

DAVAO CITY — The elder brother of lawyer Rex Jasper Lopoz, who was slain last Wednesday in Tagum City, Davao del Norte by unidentified gunmen, said the slain lawyer was a victim of impunity spawned by the government’s war on drugs. Arvin Dexter Lopoz, a lawyer and a former provincial legislator in Compostela Valley, made […]

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‘Buy-bust’ killing: Suspect asleep when cops barged in, says sis

Benjamin Villanueva, a suspected drug pusher, was asleep when policemen in civilian clothes and wearing black masks stormed into his housing unit in Tondo, Manila, in the wee hours of Sunday.

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