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Justice system failed victims of drug war De Lima

The Philippine Star

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June 29, 2024

Despite her acquittal from all the drug charges against her, former senator Leila de Lima said yesterday that the justice system did not work for all the perpetrators and victims of the drug war of former president Rodrigo Duterte.

- JOSE RODEL CLAPANO, Cecille Suerte Felipe

In an interview with "Storycon" on One News, De Lima said that seven years was a long time to be vindicated from the "politically motivated and manufactured charges" filed by the Duterte administration against her.

"It worked in the end for Leila de Lima. But not in the case of the thousands killed during Duterte's war on drugs," De Lima said in reaction to the statement made earlier by President Marcos that her acquittal indicates that the justice system in the country works.

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