Rights Advocate Freed on Bail in Philippines
Click to expand Image Former Senator Leila de Lima waves to supporters after leaving the Muntinlupa City trial court in the National Capital Region, Philippines, November 13, 2023. 2023 Aaron Favila/AP Photo 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 Senate investigation into the so-called "war on drugs." On Monday, de Lima finally stepped out of police headquarters in Metro Manil...