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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 »

How a police squad racked up kills in drug war

Clare Baldwin and Andrew R.C. Marshall, Reuters
Posted at Dec 19 11:31 PM

Almost all of these killings were carried out by Station 6's anti-drug unit, the reports show. The officers who formed the core of that unit hailed from or near Davao, the southern hometown of President Duterte. Read more »

Duterte tells cops: No to EJKs

Vivienne Gulla, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Dec 19 03:39 AM

President Rodrigo Duterte told policemen not to engage in extra-judicial killings (EJKs) as the government battles drugs, terrorism and the New People's Army (NPA). Read more »

Light up for human rights

Mark Demayo, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Dec 15 10:41 PM

Lanterns depicting play and social commentary light up for the University of the Philippines' annual Lantern Parade in Quezon City on Friday. Various colleges and departments in the State University display creativity or commentary in one of their year-end traditions.  Read more »

'Oplan Tokrun': Mga patayan, kinondena sa fun run

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Dec 03 09:12 AM

Kinondena sa "Oplan Tokrun" fun run ang mga umano'y extrajudicial killing at paglabag sa karapatang pantao sa ilalim ng administrasyong Duterte, Linggo. Read more »

De Lima receives rosary from Pope Francis

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Nov 26 05:01 PM

Detained Senator Leila De Lima on Sunday thanked Pope Francis for sending her a rosary. Read more »

OPINION: Will Duterte and Trump (and other leaders) do the fist pump?

Ellen T. Tordesillas
Posted at Nov 13 12:23 AM

That’s the most awaited happening in the 31st ASEAN Summit and Related Meetings that will take place Nov. 13 and 14  in Metro Manila. Read more »

On ground zero of Duterte's drug war, Church grapples with 'unruly theology'

Inday Espina-Varona
Updated as of Nov 05 09:10 PM

As Filipinos flock to the Edsa Shrine on November 5 for a healing mass and a show of strength on the issue of extra-judicial killings, many of them will be asking, “what took the Church so so long?” Read more »

Katarungan, inaasam ng pamilya ng mga biktima ng martial law at EJK

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Nov 03 02:41 AM

Nagsindi ng isang libong kandila ngayong Undas ang pamilya ng mga biktima ng martial law at umano'y extra-judicial killings. Read more »

OPINION: We do not condone killings

Teddy Locsin, Jr.
Posted at Nov 03 01:17 AM

The Philippines is committed to upholding the rule of law and respecting human rights in the fight against illegal drugs. We do not condone killings.  Read more »

No EJKs? Duterte claim fails any test, say lawyers

Inday Espina-Varona
Posted at Nov 02 09:13 PM

Manlaban, a new alliance of lawyers against extra-judicial killings and other human rights violations, rejects the Philippine government’s claim of zero extra-judicial killings despite the death of thousands in President Rodrigo Duterte’s drug war. Read more »