Credit to Author: THE MANILA TIMES| Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2019 06:27:48 +0000
THE Philippine National Police (PNP) is open to scrapping “Oplan Tokhang” if Vice President Maria Leonor “Leni” Robredo will order it, its spokesman said on Tuesday. Brig. Gen. Bernard Banac told The Manila Times in a text message that the PNP was behind Robredo in making the drug war “successful.” Robredo accepted her designation as co-chairman of the Interagency Committee […]
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Credit to Author: eestopace| Date: Fri, 05 Jul 2019 12:19:49 +0000
Militant groups have slammed Senator Ronald “Bato” dela Rosa for allegedly making insensitive remarks concerning the death of a three-year-old girl during an anti-drug operation.
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Credit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2019 09:07:15 +0000
MANILA, Philippines — The Commission on Human Rights (CHR) is urging government to investigate other cases where drug suspects allegedly resisted arrest (nalaban) during ‘Oplan Tokhang’ operations after the dismissal of a Manila police officer who shot dead a supposed drug suspect with epilepsy in 2017.
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Credit to Author: mfrialde| Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2019 04:57:12 +0000
The National Union of People’s Lawyers (NUPL) wants the team leader of the police anti-drug operation that led to the killing
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Credit to Author: clopez| Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2019 21:20:08 +0000
Ressa pleads not guilty to 4 tax evasion cases Rappler executive editor and CEO Maria Ressa pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to four tax evasion cases during her arraignment in the Court of Tax Appeals. The court’s First Division also allowed Ressa to travel to Italy and the United States for speaking engagements and set […]
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Credit to Author: eestopace| Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2019 10:42:46 +0000
Vice President Leni Robredo said Wednesday that the Supreme Court’s decision to release drug war data is a ‘giant step’ towards justice.
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Credit to Author: eestopace| Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2019 09:13:43 +0000
The CHR said it expects the government to faithfully comply with the Supreme Court order to release all ‘Tokhang’ reports.
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Credit to Author: besguerra| Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2019 23:24:16 +0000
On Dec. 5, 2017, the Supreme Court ordered the Philippine National Police and Solicitor General Jose Calida to submit to the tribunal the official police investigation reports on the killings of more than 4,000 suspects in President Rodrigo Duter Duterte’s war on drugs.
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Credit to Author: jespinosa| Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2019 05:23:45 +0000
Senator Leila de Lima has slammed senatorial candidate Ronald “Bato” dela Rosa for being “insensitive” after the former police chief made a joke about “Oplan Tokhang,” the police’s nationwide anti-illegal drug operations.
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Read moreCredit to Author: cbibe| Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2019 03:12:23 +0000
“It was not wrong but it was imperfect,” said former Philippine National Police chief and now senatorial candidate Ronald “Bato” dela Rosa.
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