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De Lima rejects House bill presuming guilt of drug suspects
Opposition Senator Leila M. de Lima has opposed the House of Representatives passage of a bill providing legal presumptions on drug-related offenses which essentially presumes guilt on drug suspects.
While the intentions of House Bill No. 7814 are generally good, De Lima said certain provisions in the proposed amendatory bill to the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act are patently offensive to the Bill of Rights. If the laws are not just, the rule of law falls, said De Lima, a social justice and human rights champion and the staunchest critic of the administration s failed war on drugs, in her Dispatch from Crame No. 1040.
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HONTIVEROS WANTS PROBE TO AVOID FUTURE LAW ENFORCEMENT MISENCOUNTERS
Senator Risa Hontiveros has filed a Senate Resolution, in aid of legislation, urging the Committee on Public Order and Dangerous drugs to investigate current law enforcement procedures and protocols to avoid another misencounter , similar to the recent shootout at Ever Gotesco between officers of the Philippine National Police and agents of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency. May kinalaman ba ang ibang opisyal ng PNP o ng PDEA sa kalakal ng ilegal na droga? Saang banda ito naging misencounter? We must find out now. We need to know if the incident was a simple misencounter caused by gross negligence, or if it resulted from deliberate unlawful acts committed by either the police officers or the PDEA agents involved, Hontiveros said.
Quezon City Mayor Joy Belmonte on Wednesday night called on her constituents to avoid posting "fake news” and false information on social media regarding a shooting incident that transpired near a mall on Commonwealth Ave.
Mayor Joy Belmonte
Belmonte said, this is to avoid spreading informatio
The longstanding 1989 accord between UP and the
Department of National Defense was suddenly terminated on January 15 via a letter to UP President
Danilo Concepcion, citing claims that the university became a hotbed for the recruitment of communist rebels.
The historic deal signed by then UP President
Jose Abueva and Defense chief
Fidel Ramos 30 years ago has prohibited state forces from entering UP campuses without the permission of the school administration.
Exceptions warranting state forces’ presence cover hot pursuit operations and similar emergency cases, and if UP officials requested their assistance.
In an effort to justify the abrupt gesture at a briefing on Wednesday, January 20, Maj. Gen.