The Philippine National Police (PNP) is prepared to create tracker teams to locate suspended prisons chief Gerald Bantag and his deputy Ricardo Zulueta if they would go into hiding in case a warrant of arrest is issued against them in connection with the killing of broadcast journalist Percival...
Representatives from the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) could soon be included in all anti-drug operations by the Philippine National Police (PNP) if a bill proposed by a congresswoman is enacted. File photo of several men carrying the body of an illegal drug suspect during a drug raid in Quiapo,...
President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. no longer has to issue an order to speed up the investigation on drug war-related killings as "it is already a part of the justice system." President Ferdinand 'Bongbong' Marcos Jr. (Noel Pabalate) Press Secretary Trixi Cruz-Angeles stated this on Tuesday,...
TV personality Gretchen Ho couldn't help but share her two cents about finding out that the 69-year-old retired policeman father of the Ateneo murder suspect was shot dead outside his house in Lamitan City, Basilan, recently. On Twitter, the former volleyball player wrote: "Violence begets...
Former Senator Leila de Lima on Tuesday, July 5 said she agrees that the war against illegal drugs should continue under the Marcos administration, but this time there should be no more extrajudicial killings nor any manipulation. “Absolutely, the anti-drug campaign must be pursued relentlessly,...
Malacañang has slammed the annual Amnesty International (AI) report which it considered as a "cut-and-paste collection of recycled issues and arguments" on human rights violations in the country used by critics of the Duterte administration. This picture taken on October 29, 2016 shows police...
BACOLOD CITY -- A deep-seated grudge triggered a son to hack his father to death during a drinking session in Sitio Fuentes, Barangay Mabini, Escalante City, Negros Occidental on Saturday, Feb. 26. Police identified the victim as Mariano Aberina, 46, of Barangay Mabini. A father died after he was...
BACOLOD CITY - Policemen are looking into the alleged failed illegal drug transaction as the possible motive behind the brutal killing of a couple in Negros Oriental over the weekend. The victims were identified by police on Thursday, Feb. 24, as Jennifer Garzola, 27 of Binalbagan town, and her...
Presidential aspirant Vice President Leni Robredo said on Wednesday, Jan. 26, that the International Criminal Court (ICC), which has since deferred preliminary investigations into President Duterte’s bloody war on drugs, will be allowed in the country if she wins in the May 2022 polls. Vice...
Opposition Senator Leila de Lima on Thursday said President Duterte’s refusal to apologize to drug war victims comes as no surprise saying history shows that tyrants and mass murderers never apologized for their crimes. Thus, De Lima said only history would judge Duterte for his crimes against...
Two senators on Wednesday denounced the recent assassination of Trece Martires Assistant City Prosecutor Edilberto Mendoza and the killing of former Pangasinan mayor Aldrin Cerdan, lamenting that the incidents happened within a day of each other, the first happening on New Year’s Eve, and the...
Should they win next year, the opposition candidates running with Vice President Leni Robredo will be more open to having the International Criminal Court (ICC) investigate the alleged extrajudicial killings (EJKs) that happened under the guise of the Duterte administration’s war on illegal...
