Supporters say Leila de Lima is a human rights defender still paying the price for speaking out against the abuses of the former president's drug war.
De Lima penned a handwritten statement in response to questions from NPR delivered through her staff. She says she has lost her freedom because of vengeance. She says it demonstrates how"a fragile democracy can be dismantled in the bat of an eye."The first half of a 12-page statement Philippine former Sen. Leila de Lima handwrote from jail, dated Aug. 23, in response to questions from NPR.
De Lima says there have been"similar attacks waged against truth-tellers," including a former chief justice and Duterte critic, whose removal for allegedly failing to disclose all of her assets was seen as an assault on judicial independence.
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