Human Rights Watch Issued Commentary: Rights Advocate Freed on Bail in Philippines
November 15, 2023
November 15, 2023
NEW YORK, Nov. 15 -- Human Rights Watch issued the following commentary on Nov. 14, 2023:
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Rights Advocate Freed on Bail in Philippines
By Carlos H. Conde, Senior Researcher, Asia Division
Shortly after he became Philippine president in 2016, Rodrigo Duterte made an astonishing vow: "I will have to destroy her in public." The former president was referring to Leila de Lima, then a sitting senator who, days earlier, opened a Senat . . .
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Rights Advocate Freed on Bail in Philippines
By Carlos H. Conde, Senior Researcher, Asia Division
Shortly after he became Philippine president in 2016, Rodrigo Duterte made an astonishing vow: "I will have to destroy her in public." The former president was referring to Leila de Lima, then a sitting senator who, days earlier, opened a Senat . . .