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ILIGAN CITY—Ex-President Rodrigo Duterte affirmed the observations of President Marcos that abuses were committed in the course of the former’s antidrug campaign. “I am sure [that] if you read the context of the President’s speech, which I had…
WASHINGTON—President Marcos on Thursday (Friday in Manila) acknowledged that “abuses” were committed and that the human rights situation became a cause for concern during the previous administration, when his predecessor Rodrigo Duterte waged a bloody antidrug crackdown that claimed the lives…
MANILA, Philippines — Who else can turn basketball-crazed Filipinos away from the lure of illegal drugs? For the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG), there could be no better ambassadors for the drug campaign than…
MANILA, Philippines — Senator Imee Marcos on Friday joined the chorus of criticisms thrown at the International Criminal Court (ICC) under the administration of her brother, President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr., as she called the tribunal a…
MANILA, Philippines — President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on Tuesday said the Philippine government is ending its involvement in the International Criminal Court (ICC) after it rejected the government’s appeal to suspend its probe into “drug war” killings.…
A man who played dead before fleeing the scene of a bloody drug raid conducted by the Quezon City police in 2016 was acquitted of charges that he fought back, or “nanlaban,” an allegation made by the…
MANILA, Philippines — Sen. Jinggoy Estrada filed on Monday another Senate resolution seeking to protect former President Rodrigo Duterte from the drug war probe of the International Criminal Court. Senate Resolution No. 492 expresses the Senate’s “strong opposition” against ICC’s resumption…
One puzzle in the death of drug war victim Kian delos Santos may have been solved five years after he was murdered by Caloocan policemen in August 2017 with the recovery of a bullet in his body that had…
MANILA, Philippines — Justice Secretary Jesus Crispin Remulla on Friday insisted that the Philippines has a functional justice system as he called the decision of the International Criminal Court (ICC) to resume its “drug war” probe an…
CEBU CITY, Philippines — Close to 1,000 former drug surrenderees in Talisay City are now members of the city’s Anti-Illegal Drug Advocates (AIDA). The advocates will be helping the police in implementing the city’s laws. They are…
CEBU CITY, Philippines — A buy-bust operation in Talisay City, Cebu led to the confiscation of at least P13.6 million worth of suspected shabu and arrest of two individuals from Cebu City. The buy-bust operation was conducted on Sunday…
CEBU CITY, Philippines—Two drug dens were shut down and eight individuals were arrested during separate buy-bust operations in the cities of Dumaguete and Cebu. Leia Alcantara, spokesperson of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency in Central Visayas (PDEA-7),…
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