7,000 deaths and counting: HRW says Duterte liable for rights ‘calamity’ in PHL

An international human rights organization said that Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte could be held liable for “crimes against humanity” as his bloody war on drugs claimed more than 7,000 deaths.

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NPA prisoners’ parents, wife plead to Duterte: Help us bring them back

??A wife who is pregnant with their first born, and parents who are searching for their son for already a month appealed to President Rodrigo Duterte to help ??them be reunited with their loved ones.??

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Pleading for mercy: Solons file House reso as calls mount to spare OFW on death row

Gabriela Women’s partylist Rep. Emmi De Jesus and Arlene Brosas filed House Resolution 829 on Wednesday, urging President Rodrigo Duterte to seek executive clemency ?from the ?United Arab Emirates government ?for an overseas Filipino worker from General Santos City who is facing an execution.

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MARTIAL LAW DETAINEES. Serapion Torregosa (right), 65, sits with his fellow former Martial Law detainees from Davao del Sur at the regional assembly of the Samahan ng mga Ex-Detainees Laban sa Detensyon at Aresto at the Brokenshire chapel in Davao City on the occassion of the 31st anniversary of EDSA People Power, Feb.25, 2017. (Zea Io Ming C. Capistrano/davaotoday.com)

#EDSA31: What Davao’s martial law victims think changed after People Power

On the 31st anniversary of the EDSA People Power uprising, former political detainees arrested during the time of Martial Law gathered for their regional assembly at the Brokenshire Chapel here Saturday.

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