Philippine’s Rodrigo Duterte urged to drop charges against leading war on drugs critic – Telegraph.co.uk

Duterte ordered the military to play a role in his crackdown after police drug squads were suspended last month over corruption charges and the murder of a South Korean businessman.

De Lima, who denies the charges against her, has called in the past for an international investigation into state-inspired extrajudicial murders. She has expressed fears that her own life is in danger because of her outspoken views.

I have long prepared myself to be a political prisoner under this regime, she said in a statement over the weekend after the charges were filed.

If the loss of my freedom is the price I have to pay for standing up against the butchery of the Duterte regime, then it is a price I am willing to pay, she said. But they are mistaken if they think my fight ends here. It has only begun.

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