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Philippine National Police officer-in-charge Police Lieutenant General Guillermo Eleazar and Integrated Bar of the Philippines president Atty. Domingo Cayosa on Tuesday, March 16, 2021, commit to work together to address the increasing number of killings of lawyers, prosecutors and judges in the country. Photo courtesy: PNP PNP, IBP renew collaboration to address killings of lawyers, judges, prosecutors
Published March 17, 2021 10:27am The Philippine National Police (PNP) and the Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP) renewed their commitment of collaboration amid the increasing number of killings of lawyers, prosecutors and judges in the country. In a statement on Wednesday, PNP said its officer-in-charge Police Lieutenant General Guillermo Eleazar and IBP president Atty. Domingo Cayosa attended the meeting on Tuesday regarding the matter.
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Published on: Tuesday, March 16, 2021
By: Philippine Star
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MANILA: The number of lawyers killed in nearly five years into the administration of President Rodrigo Duterte
(pic) is higher than murders in the legal profession combined in the past six administrations spanning 44 years, a list collated by the Free Legal Assistance Group (Flag) showed.
Flag has tallied 61 lawyers slain since June 2016, while a total of 26 killings of lawyers were recorded since 1972, during the Martial Law rule of the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos Sr. to 2016, the end of administration of former President Benigno Aquino III, Duterte’s predecessor.
A separate list culled from the Supreme Court and the Department of Justice, showed 49 killings from Marcos to Benigno Aquino III administration. The number is still higher than the murders recorded just five years into the Duterte administration.
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More lawyers have been killed in the five years since President Rodrigo Duterte took office than under any other government in Philippine history. Data collated by the news website Rappler found that 110 lawyers were killed from 1972 to the present. Sixty-one of those killings have taken place since 2016.
Since 2004, charges have been filed in just seven cases in which lawyers were victims, underscoring the lack of accountability for serious crimes in the Philippines. The Free Legal Assistance Group (FLAG), one of two nongovernmental groups that track killings of lawyers, said more than half were work-related. The National Union of People’s Lawyers (NUPL), which also monitors attacks, said most of those killed represented either victims of the “war on drugs” or victims