After a heated debate in a Senate hearing that prompted Justice Committee Chair Senator Leila de Lima to call a two-minute suspension, Senator Alan Peter Cayetano asked that he be separated from his seatmate, Senator Antonio Trillanes IV.

Cayetano was interpellating a witness claiming to have worked as an assassin for then Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte when Trillanes "inquire[d] if there is an 'unli-questioning' allotted for a non-member of the committee."

The Senate on Thursday held its third hearing on the alleged extrajudicial killings in the government's war on drugs.