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'We’re now made to think again, and realize that Leila de Lima's chief persecutor, ex-president Rodrigo Duterte himself, has cast a much longer shadow than we hoped he did and could.' Opinion FreeLeilaDeLimaNow
made for the elimination of the final roadblock to justice and freedom for Leila de Lima. But we’re now made to think again, and realize that her chief persecutor, ex-president Rodrigo Duterte himself, has cast a much longer shadow than we hoped he did and could.
In her “Dispatch from Crame No. 1304” – one of those memos she writes by hand because her jailers would not even provide her with a decent implement for the purpose – De Lima says: To be fair to Alcantara, acquitting De Lima was in itself a bold decision to make under the circumstances. Still, giving in to a patently unmeritorious motion, one presented yet with a palpable sense of impunity, bore portents not only for De Lima, but for anyone seeking genuine justice.
“Inhibition is done to assure the accused, not the government, that the trial of the case will be fair and regular. The Constitution’s Bill of Rights upon which all of the most basic elements of our justice system are grounded has for its inception the fundamental law’s assurances against the abuse of the strong arm of the law by the State.
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