Credit to Author: besguerra| Date: Sun, 04 Aug 2019 21:34:54 +0000
MANILA, Philippines — Detained Sen. Leila de Lima on Sunday expressed gratitude to two of her colleagues for initiating a move that would allow her to participate in the Senate deliberations from her detention cell at Camp Crame through electronic communications.
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Credit to Author: mfrialde| Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2019 02:54:24 +0000
President Rodrigo Duterte’s supposed preference to hang convicts as form of capital punishment shows just how “barbaric” and “inhumane”
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Credit to Author: racosta| Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2019 21:20:36 +0000
President Rodrigo Duterte, whose rape jokes have sparked outrage among women’s rights groups, was dared on Tuesday to comply with a law that he had signed penalizing catcalling, wolf whistling, persistently telling sexual jokes and other forms of sexual harassment in public.
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Credit to Author: mfrialde| Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2019 03:27:59 +0000
MANILA, Philippines — For Senator Leila De Lima, President Rodrigo Duterte is normalizing killing as a “state policy
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Read moreCredit to Author: Alexander Magno| Date: Wed, 03 Jul 2019 11:51:11 +0000
The Philippine National Police (PNP) “set aside the fact that innocents continue to die because of this murderous drug war” when it said the Philippines was winning the campaign against drugs, detained Sen. Leila De Lima said on Wednesday.
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Credit to Author: racosta| Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2019 21:07:37 +0000
The Philippine National Police must present proof that the individuals killed in antidrug operations had fought back against authorities, according to Sen. Leila de Lima.
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Read moreCredit to Author: acerojano| Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2019 09:41:15 +0000
Senator Leila De Lima called President Rodrigo Duterte a dictator and a coward after the President threatened to imprison those who would file an impeachment complaint for his alleged failure to defend the country’s territory from China.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Alexander Magno| Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2019 17:38:40 +0000
“Both have denied under oath their complicity in the illegal drug trade. Yet, both accuse each other of such complicity!”
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Credit to Author: hniitsu| Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2019 03:11:59 +0000
Opposition Senator Leila De Lima took a swipe at the government’s repeated refusal of an independent investigation into President Rodrigo Duterte’s bloody drug war.
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Read moreCredit to Author: jvicente| Date: Sat, 08 Jun 2019 06:01:09 +0000
Senator Leila de Lima said that President Duterte’s “crass leadership style” has promoted a culture of misogyny that affects the youth.
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