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Philippine law-enforcement agencies launched #RealNumbersPH on May 2, 2017, to publish data and publicity related to the drug war. [336] In the Philippine Senate, on August 22, 2016, the Senate committee on justice and human rights opened a Senate inquiry on extrajudicial killings and police operations under the Philippine Drug War.
In accordance with his campaign promise, President Rodrigo Duterte initiated the war on drugs shortly after he took office on June 30, 2016. [9] [10] As of July 26, 2017, the Philippine Information Agency reported 68,000 anti-drug operations which resulted in around 97,000 arrests, 1.3 million surrenders, and around 3,500 drug personalities killed in legitimate police operations. [11]
The Philippine National Police (PNP) and the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) said today that a total of 5,176 drug suspects have been killed in anti-drug operations ever since President ...
Colonel Romeo Caramat oversaw the bloodiest day in the blood-soaked war on drugs in the Philippines – 32 people killed in 24 hours in the province north of Manila where he was police chief in 2017.
Philippine activists and the families of victims in a drug war that has killed thousands view with dread the possibility of President Rodrigo Duterte staying on as vice-president for six more ...
The Philippine justice secretary pledged on Tuesday to launch an investigation after a forensic pathologist said some death certificates issued for victims of the country's crackdown on drugs had ...
After their arrest, the kidnappers—who turned out to be members of the Philippine National Police (PNP)—accused Jee of being involved in the illegal drug trade. [2] Jee's wife, Choi Kyung-jin, made the statement that the kidnapper Patrick Joseph Banez demanded a ransom of ₱ 8 million , and she reportedly paid ₱5 million on October 30, 2016.
On July 2, 2018, Antonio Halili, the mayor of Tanauan, Batangas in the Philippines, was shot by an unknown shooter during a flag ceremony at the city hall.He was rushed to a nearby hospital, where was pronounced dead at 8:45 A.M. (), less than an hour after the shooting.