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OPINION: Sen. Leila M. de Lima: An update

Buddy Gomez -- Cyberbuddy
Posted at Sep 16 06:54 AM

Sen. Leila de Lima’s detention will have broken its 570-day mark this coming week. She has been in detention since Feb 24, 2017, held without bail. Read more »

Filipino photojournalist wins award in UK for young photographers

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Sep 10 06:06 PM

Filipino photojournalist Ezra Acayan is one of this year's winners of the Ian Parry Scholarship, a prestigious grant in photojournalism given by The Sunday Times in the United Kingdom. Read more »

OPINION: Families of drug war victims bring plea for justice at the ICC

Ellen T. Tordesillas
Updated as of Aug 31 12:59 PM

While President Duterte may be able to prevent his arrest in the country, he would be risking arrest if he is in another country that has signed and ratified the Rome statute. Read more »

Victims of Duterte drug war tame anger, overcome fear as they bring fight to ICC

Inday Espina-Varona, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Aug 28 11:02 PM

“This is historic because this is the first time victims themselves are filing a case against President Durerte,” said Neri Colmenares of the National Union of Peoples' Lawyers, counsel for the complainants. Read more »

Crying out for justice

Jonathan Cellona, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Aug 28 01:48 PM

Relatives of victims killed in the government's deadly drug war gather at the United Church of Christ of the Philippines (UCCP) to support each other, Tuesday.  Read more »

Justice for victims of extra-judicial killings

Mark Demayo, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Aug 16 07:30 PM

Protesters picket against alleged extra-judicial killings in Manila on Thursday, a year after the death of Kian Delos Santos in Caloocan. Read more »

Kalbaryo

Basilio H. Sepe, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jul 19 03:50 PM

Activists carrying wooden crosses and a coffin march towards the House of Representatives on Thursday, ahead of President Duterte's third State of the Nation Address (SONA) in Quezon City.  Read more »

Day of mourning

George Calvelo, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jun 18 11:56 PM

Members of different church groups, including Catholic nuns and priests, stage a candle lighting protest in observance of the Day of Mourning at Plaza Miranda in Manila, Monday. Read more »

‘Justice for Fr. Nilo’

Jire Carreon, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jun 14 10:35 PM

Members of different religious groups belonging to the Promotion of Church People's Response (PCPR) hold a candlelight protest at the Mariana Park in E. Rodriguez, Quezon City on Thursday.  Read more »

PNP: 4,251 drug personalities killed, over 142K arrested in drug war

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of May 07 08:14 PM

MANILA - The number of drug personalities killed in police anti-narcotics operations reached 4,251 last April, nearly 2 years after President Rodrigo Duterte assumed office, the Philippine National Police (PNP) said Monday.  Read more »

OPINION: Mother of tokhang victim petitions Netflix not to show ‘Amo’

Ellen T. Tordesillas
Updated as of Apr 09 12:52 AM

There’s a petition going around online addressed to Netflix to stop the April 9  showing of the TV series “Amo” about the brutal war against illegal drugs being waged by President Rodrigo Duterte. Read more »

OPINION: Matobato and the firefly

Ellen T. Tordesillas
Posted at Mar 26 12:28 AM

The priest cites the alitaptap (firefly) incident to underscore how God works in mysterious and heart-warming ways. That even in the darkest situation, light will find its way in.  Read more »

Drugs and death

Noel Celis, AFP
Posted at Mar 23 08:25 PM

The body of an alleged drug dealer lies on the ground after he was killed by an unidentified assailant in Manila on Friday. Read more »

British MP vows scrutiny of spy equipment sale to Philippines

Rose Eclarinal, ABS-CBN Europe News Bureau
Updated as of Mar 11 06:24 PM

A member of the British parliament on Sunday vowed to scrutinize his country's export of surveillance equipment to Manila, saying this may make UK "complicit" in the alleged extra-judicial killings under the Philippines' war on drugs. Read more »

Secrecy over PNP ‘nanlaban’ records hampering search for justice of families

Inday Espina-Varona
Updated as of Mar 08 07:35 PM

The Duterte government’s insistence on keeping secret records of thousands of police operations that ended up with dead suspects is major proof of extra-judicial killings (EJKs), according to different groups of lawyers. Read more »

Trillanes sends videos of Duterte’s speeches to ICC

Mike Navallo, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Feb 21 09:35 PM

Senator Antonio Trillanes IV on Wednesday said he has sent videos of President Rodrigo Duterte's speeches to the International Criminal Court (ICC), which earlier announced that it will begin a preliminary examination into the government's drug war. Read more »

New DILG chief vows to uphold human rights

Vivienne Gulla, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jan 10 04:01 AM

The newly appointed officer-in-charge of the Department of Interior and Local Government vows to uphold human rights, amid criticisms on the government's bloody war on drugs. Read more »

Callamard: We won't be cowed by 'bully pulpit'

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Dec 31 03:33 PM

MANILA - United Nations special rapporteur on summary executions Agnes Callamard vowed Sunday that she and her colleagues will neither yield to "lies" nor intimidated after they were criticized by President Duterte's spokesman Harry Roque. Read more »

Poor grandmas forced to care for drug war orphans

Kaela Malig and Andrea Taguines, VERA Files
Posted at Dec 29 09:44 PM

Many children left behind by fathers killed in government’s war against drugs have been left to the care of grandmothers.  Read more »

'Bato' defends deadly drug war of the 'Davao Boys'

Reuters
Posted at Dec 21 05:12 AM

MANILA - Philippine National Police (PNP) chief Ronald "Bato" dela Rosa on Wednesday stood by the head of a secretive unit involved in dozens of killings in the country's war on drugs, saying officers fired only in self-defense and the death toll reflected the danger and the scale of the narcotics problem. Read more »