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By the end of Duterte's term, the number of drug suspects killed since Duterte took office was officially tallied by the Philippine government as 6,252. [13] Human rights groups, including the ICC, however, claim drug casualties reached as high as 12,000 to 30,000 [14] and the killings reached their peak between 2016 and 2017. [15] [16]
A Philippine court on Monday freed on bail a former senator jailed more than six years ago on drug charges she said were fabricated to silence her investigation of then-President Rodrigo Duterte ...
Portraits of alleged victims of the Philippine “war on drugs” are displayed during a protest of Duterte’s State of the Nation Address, in Manila, Monday, July 22, 2019.
On August 25, 2016, Duterte released a drug matrix showing the structure of drug trafficking operations at the New Bilibid Prison and identified the two former top officials of the Department of Justice, the former provincial governor and board member of Pangasinan, and the former Bureau of Corrections director as being involved in the Bilibid ...
The Department of Justice had also ordered the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) to create a parallel investigation on the incident. [12] The NBI was later designated as the sole investigating body for the incident by President Rodrigo Duterte, who ordered the joint PNP-PDEA investigation to be stopped in a bid to ensure impartiality. [13]
Gikan sa Masa, para sa Masa (transl. From the Masses, for the Masses; formerly titled Mula sa Masa, para sa Masa) was a weekly public service and talk television program hosted by former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte together with Rocky Ignacio from the People's Television Network and Apollo Quiboloy on SMNI.
Former Philippine leader Rodrigo Duterte's son urged President Ferdinand Marcos Jr to resign on Sunday, calling him lazy and uncompassionate in a deepening rift between the two politically ...
In 2009, Duterte responded to a reported arrest and subsequent release of a notorious drug lord in Manila. [16] In 2014, referring to the arrest of a suspected rice smuggler, Duterte spoke out at a Senate hearing, saying: "If this guy would go to Davao and starts to unload (smuggled rice)… I will gladly kill him."