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Jailed former Senator Leila de Lima reacts after she goes out of the Muntinlupa City trial court on Monday, Nov. 13, 2023 in Muntinlupa, Philippines.

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Long-jailed former Philippine senator who fought drug crackdown is granted bail

3:36am November 13, 2023

by The Associated Press

The European Union Parliament, some U.S. lawmakers and U.N. human rights experts have long demanded the release of Leila de Lima, who was detained as an opposition senator in February 2017.

Maria Ressa announced in a speech in Hawaii, Tuesday, June 28, 2022, that the Philippine government is affirming a previous order to shut down Rappler, the news website she co-founded.

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A journalist says the Philippines is shutting down her critical news site

10:44am June 29, 2022

by The Associated Press

Maria Ressa, the first Filipino Nobel Peace Prize recipient, says the government is closing Rappler, which gained notoriety for its reporting of President Duterte's bloody crackdown on illegal drugs.

Investigators will focus on the period from 2016, when Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte took office, through March 2019, after which the Philippines was deemed to have withdrawn from the International Criminal Court in a bid to avert its jurisdiction.

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International Criminal Court Backs Probe Of Duterte's War On Drugs In The Philippines

4:58pm September 15, 2021

by Julie McCarthy

Officially, at least 6,000 Filipinos, mostly poor drug peddlers and addicts, have been killed in the anti-drug police operations. But rights groups say the number of victims could be four times that.

Maria Ressa, CEO of the Rappler news site, leaves a Philippine regional trial court after being convicted for cyber libel on June 15. Ressa, a veteran journalist and outspoken critic of President Rodrigo Duterte, is the focus of A Thousand Cuts, a documen

Philippine Journalist Maria Ressa: 'Journalism Is Activism'

8:26am August 06, 2020

The documentary A Thousand Cuts focuses on how Ressa and her Rappler news organization navigate Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's attacks on the press. It will be released in the U.S. Aug. 8.

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A Filipino man uses an e-cigarette outside a Manila mall in 2016. Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte announced Tuesday a total ban on vaping products.

Philippines' Duterte Says He Will Ban E-Cigarettes, Threatens To Arrest Vapers

4:03pm November 19, 2019

by Paolo Zialcita

At a press conference Tuesday, Duterte announced a ban on the use and importation of vaping devices. On Friday, Filipino authorities announced their first case of vape-associated lung injury.

"I want a boat prepared" to take tons of trash back to Canada, Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte said Tuesday. In this 2015 photo, Filipino activists wear shipping container costumes to call on Canada to remove the garbage from a port in Manila.

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Philippines' Duterte Talks Trash (Literally) To Canada, Threatening War Over Garbage

12:04pm April 24, 2019

by Bill Chappell

More than 100 shipping containers had been declared to hold recyclable plastic scraps. But when they arrived in Manila, officials found household trash, including adult diapers.

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte (on stage in brown) raises a clenched fist as he declares Marawi "liberated" during a ceremony in the Bangolo district of Marawi on Tuesday.

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Philippine President Duterte Declares Besieged City 'Liberated'

12:58pm October 17, 2017

by Merrit Kennedy

Still, gunfire and explosions resounded as soldiers tried to clear what the government claims is the last pocket of resistance in Marawi City. A military spokesman said some 30 militants remained.

Relatives of an alleged drug dealer killed during a police anti-drug operation react upon seeing his body in Manila on Thursday. Police in the Philippine capital shot dead more than two dozen drug suspects in another round of anti-drug raids, authorities

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'That's Good,' Philippine President Says, As Drug Raids Kill Unprecedented Numbers

4:54pm August 17, 2017

by Camila Domonoske

Police raids in the Philippines over a three-day span killed dozens of people suspected of selling or using drugs. They're the bloodiest known days in President Rodrigo Duterte's war on drugs.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un attends the combined fire demonstration of the services of the Korean People's Army in celebration of its 85th founding anniversary in a photo released on April 26.

6 Strongmen Trump Has Praised — And The Conflicts It Presents

2:23pm May 02, 2017

by Domenico Montanaro

From Egypt to the Philippines, the president's praise of despotic and brutal leaders is raising eyebrows. He also has potential business conflicts in or related to all of the countries.

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte answers questions from the press at Manila International Airport on March 23. Jude Sabio, a lawyer in the Philippines, has filed a complaint at the International Criminal Court accusing Duterte of crimes against humani

Lawyer In Philippines Accuses President Duterte Of Crimes Against Humanity

2:02pm April 24, 2017

by Camila Domonoske

Jude Sabio, who represents an admitted assassin who has testified against President Rodrigo Duterte, has filed a complaint against Duterte with the International Criminal Court at the Hague.