The road was paved 'to demonize her, and to emasculate her, and to weaken her voice,' Rappler executive editor Glenda Gloria says in the latest ‘Newsbreak Chats’ episode. PHVote WeDecide
all his accusations against De Lima, writing in a sworn affidavit submitted to the Department of Justice that he was “coerced, pressured, intimidated and seriously threatened” to make all his previous statements.
To the position of Manila Mayor Isko Moreno and Senator Manny Pacquiao that the detained senator should have her day in court and be given Her work at the Senate – focusing on human rights and justice – is an extension of her stint as chairperson at the Commission on Human Rights , where sheMust ReadDe Lima’s CHR investigation in 2019 was perhaps the most incisive untangling of the death squad, going as far as holding public hearings in Duterte’s bailiwick. Self-confessed DDS hitman Edgar Matobato, during a Senate hearing in 2016, said that there was a planned ambush against the then-CHR chairperson.
In a statement on Friday, April 29, De Lima said the retraction of Espinosa proves that the testimonies of witnesses “were used by the DOJ to manufacture lies about [her] and about crimes that [she] did not commit.”
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