61 legal practitioners killed since 2016, zero convictions – lawyers’ group
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Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, March 10) Sixty-one lawyers, judges, and prosecutors have been killed under the Duterte administration, according to an independent tally released by the Free Legal Assistance Group on Wednesday.
The lawyers group said 43% or 26 of these killings are deemed work-related, or connected to the victims legal practice. The crimes happened between July 2016 and January 2021, based on news reports and monitoring of the Lawyers Rights Watch Canada. The fact that almost half of the killings were due to work-related or possibly work-related motives is an indicator of the growing danger of practicing the legal profession in the country, FLAG said in its report. This, along with the fact that no one has been arrested in 73% of the killings, are indications that the government has failed to fulfill its obligation to adequately safeguard l
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With billions in intelligence funds, Vice President Leni Robredo wondered why red-tagging and fake news persist in the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP).
Vice President Leni Robredo attends her press briefing with the members of the media after the supreme court unanimously dismissed the electoral protest of Bongbong Marcos. Photo by Jansen Romero
In an interview with GMA News’ “The Mangahas Interviews,” Robredo said that she, too, has been a victim of red-tagging and fake news several times.
One of which was when Secretary Delfin Lorenzana accused her of using the army’s C130 in the distribution of relief goods for the victims of Typhoons Rolly and Ulysses in November last year. Lorenzana, and even Presidential chief legal counsel Salvador Panelo, has since apologized for the lapse.