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President Duterte

May 6, 2020

Threat against Philippines broadcaster 'dark day for media freedom'

In recent years, ABS-CBN has produced numerous investigative reports highlighting extrajudicial executions committed as part of the government’s 'war on drugs'.
April 3, 2020

President Duterte's coronavirus shoot-to-kill order 'deeply alarming'

President Duterte has ordered police and military officials in the Philippines to shoot 'troublemakers' protesting during the country’s coronavirus quarantine.
February 15, 2020

Eleven critics of Philippines 'war on drugs' arrested

Among those ordered arrested were Fr Flaviano Villanueva, who has been assisting families of victims of extrajudicial executions under the ‘war on drugs’.
July 23, 2019

President Duterte's call to revive death penalty in Philippines 'abhorrent'

Amnesty International says the Philippine government’s ‘war on drugs’ remains a murderous war on the poor, with killings of mostly poor and marginalised people continuing without credible, impartial and effective investigations into them.
July 20, 2019

High-profile critics of Philippine authorities charged with sedition

The Philippine National Police have filed complaints against 36 high-profile figures for sedition and related charges
November 30, 2018

Conviction of police officers shows reality of 'war on drugs' in Philippines, says Amnesty

Amnesty says verdict confirms that the 'war on drugs' is a brutal, murderous campaign that claims innocent lives.
September 29, 2018

Call for President Duterte's comments on killings to be probed by ICC

The President's statement that his “only sin is extrajudicial killings” was later dismissed as 'playful' by a spokesperson.
November 12, 2017

Trump 'must challenge Duterte's horrifying human rights abuses'

Amnesty is calling on President Trump to condemn President Duterte’s murderous ‘war on drugs’, and push him to investigate the unlawful killing of thousands of people around the country.
September 13, 2017

Phillipines war on drugs 'targets children'

The apparent extrajudicial executions by Philippine police of two children over a three-day period underscores the need for a United Nations inquiry into President Rodrigo Duterte’s abusive “war on drugs,” Human Rights Watch says.
August 20, 2017

President Duterte threatens Phillipine human rights activists

President Duterte has instructed the police to shoot human rights activists who 'obstruct justice' in his violent 'war on drugs'.