26. June 2023 | "War on Drugs", Human Rights Defenders, Human Rights News
On June 7, 2023, a Philippine court rejected the application for bail of former opposition senator Leila de Lima. When she criticised human rights violations in the so-called “war on drugs” of then President Rodrigo Duterte, she was then falsely accused of...
22. May 2023 | "War on Drugs", Human Rights News, Internal Affairs
During an event at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington DC on May 4, 2023, Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. acknowledged that human rights abuses related to the so-called “war on drugs” took place under the...
28. April 2023 | "War on Drugs", Human Rights News, International Institutions
Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos declared in an interview on March 28, 2023, that he would cut off communications with the International Criminal Court (ICC). The day before, the ICC rejected the government’s request to not reopen investigations into human...
28. April 2023 | "War on Drugs", Human Rights Defenders, Human Rights News, International Institutions
EU Special Representative for Human Rights Eamon Gilmore criticised that the two convictions in the so-called “war on drugs” under ex-President Duterte are “not enough” to justify an improvement of the human rights situation, considering the at...
28. April 2023 | "War on Drugs", Human Rights News, Internal Affairs
Navotas Regional Trial Court Branch 287 sentenced police officer Jefrey Sumbo Perez on March 13, 2023, to “reclusion perpetua” with up to 40 years in prison for the 2017 murders of 19-year-old Carl Angelo Arnaiz and 14-year-old Reynaldo “Kulot”...
20. March 2023 | "War on Drugs", Human Rights News, Internal Affairs, International Institutions
The Philippine government filed an appeal with the International Criminal Court (ICC) against the reopening of the ICC investigation into alleged crimes against humanity on March 13, 2023. In its appeal brief, the government argues that the ICC probe would “lack legal...
