Mar 15, 2023, Rappler.com ‘The testimony of the asset confirmed what we have heard all this time,’ says Surigao Representative Ace Barbers MANILA, Philippines – A Philippine Drug Enforcement Authority (PDEA) and Philippine National Police (PNP) informant told a House panel in a closed-door session that there were instances where more than half of illegal…
Kristine Joy Patag – Philstar.com March 13, 2023 MANILA, Philippines (Updated 6:32 p.m.) — A Navotas court has found former policeman Jeffrey Perez guilty of killing teenagers Carl Angelo Arnaiz and Reynaldo “Kulot” De Guzman whose deaths in 2017 raised doubts about the Duterte administration’s bloody “war on drugs.” The Navotas Regional Trial Court Branch 287 found…
Rebecca Ratcliffe, South-east Asia correspondent, The Guardian, Sun 26 Feb 2023 Crusading pathologist Raquel Fortun finds evidence of multiple murder at the direction of ‘a madman’ in the exhumed remains of young Filipinos it was in an old university stockroom, with wooden tables salvaged from a junkyard, that Raquel Fortun began to investigate the merciless…
JIM GOMEZ Fri, February 24, 2023, AP MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The Philippines’ chances of retaining special trading incentives, including slashed tariffs for a wide array of products, would be boosted if it decides to free a long-detained opposition leader and rejoin the International Criminal Court, a group of European parliamentarians said Friday. The European…
Aug 15, 2022 1:16 PM PHT Jairo Bolledo Kian’s remains will be reexamined by forensic expert Raquel Fortun to determine how he was killed MANILA, Philippines – Randy delos Santos has witnessed drug war victims being exhumed from their resting place. This is not new for him because he is part of St. Arnold Janssen…
Cecil Morella – Agence France-Presse June 27, 2022, Philstar.com MANILA, Philippines — Six years after four policemen burst into her Manila slum shack and shot dead her husband and teenage son, Mary Ann Bonifacio fears for her own life as she fights for justice. Bonifacio is pursuing the men in court in the hope of proving…
Editorial, Philippine Daily Inquirer /May 24, 2022 The Commission on Human Rights (CHR) last week released a damning report saying that the Duterte administration has “failed in its obligations to protect human rights,” and has “encouraged a culture of impunity” through its brutal war on drugs. After examining 882 drug-related cases from 2016 to 2021,…
Nov 30, 2021, Lian Buan The data sharing agreement between PNP and NBI does not spell out the extent of access. It also can be terminated any time. MANILA, Philippines – A change in leadership in the Philippine National Police (PNP) will test how far the bannered Department of Jusice (DOJ) drug war review will…