Former senator Leila de Lima (left), Vice President Sara Duterte (Facebook) "Namamangka sa dalawang ilog (Boating on two rivers)." This was how former senator Leila de Lima described Vice President Sara Duterte, whom she advised on Saturday, April 20...
Former senator Leila de Lima filed a demurrer to evidence with a Muntinlupa court seeking to dismiss her last remaining drug case filed by the Department of Justice (DOJ) in February 2017 under the Duterte administration. A demurrer to evidence is filed by the accused after the prosecution...
Former senator Leila de Lima will file a motion seeking to dismiss her last remaining drug case in Muntinlupa. On March 11, De Lima attended a hearing at the Muntinlupa Regional Trial Court (RTC) Branch 206. The court held a hearing on case 17-167, one of the three cases filed by the...
Former senator Leila de Lima was disappointed with the verdict in the trial of Navotas policemen who were implicated in the shooting and killing of 17-year-old Jemboy Baltazar on Aug. 2, 2023. Jemboy was allegedly mistaken by the cops for a suspect during a police operation in Barangay NBBS,...
Leila de Lima (left), Rowena Guanzon hug it out at Club Filipino (X) When Rowena Guanzon met Leila de Lima on Sunday, Feb. 25, tight hugs and hopefulness abound. There are two reasons for this. First, Sunday wasn't an ordinary day, for it was the...
Former senator Leila de Lima recalled her arrest in February 2017 on drug charges filed by the Department of Justice (DOJ) under the Duterte administration. “Seven years ago, vindictive forces silenced my voice, orchestrating my arrest on fabricated charges. Yet, the pain of that injustice...
Despite not being declared a holiday, supporters of the 1986 EDSA People Power Revolution are set to hold a series of events under the #BuhayAngEdsa message to commemorate the bloodless uprising against the Marcos dictatorship and remind Filipinos of the rebirth of Philippine democracy. The...
While the government accompanied United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur Irene Khan in her engagements during her stay in the Philippines, she was given the freedom to meet personalities outside the government. UN Special Rapporteur Irene Khan (Photo courtesy of Presidential Task Force on Media...
​A visiting United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur has been inspired by former senator Leila de Lima's courage to defend human rights. Irene Khan, UN rapporteur on freedom of opinion and expression, shared about her meeting with De Lima, who had been jailed for around six years due to drug...
A Muntinlupa court has ordered government prosecutors to submit 61 pieces of evidence and documents related to the last remaining drug case of former senator Leila de Lima. The Muntinlupa Regional Trial Court (RTC) Branch 206 held a hearing on case 17-167, which accused De Lima, former Bureau...
Former senator Leila de Lima has asked President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. to clarify if the study he ordered about the country’s cooperation with the International Criminal Court (ICC) has ended. De Lima was reacting to Marcos’ announcement that the Philippine government will not cooperate...
United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Promotion and Protection of the Right to Freedom of Opinion and Expression Irene Khan will meet with House Speaker Martin Romualdez, Department of Justice (DOJ) Secretary Jesus Crispin Remulla, and former senator Leila de Lima, according to Presidential Task...
