Retired Police Colonel Royina Garma is being held in the US for alleged money laundering and human rights violations, Justice Secretary Jesus Crispin Remulla has said. In a chance interview, Remulla referred to the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act passed in 2016 on sanctions imposed on human rights violations and corruption anywhere in the […]
November 12, 2024 | 6:21pm MANILA, Philippines — Former Davao City police anti-vice unit chief Royina Garma, who was held by U.S. immigration officials in San Francisco California due to a canceled U.S. visa, is set to be deported back to the Philippines. Justice Secretary Jesus Crispin Remulla disclosed this in an ambush interview with […]
A lawmaker on Monday proposed a joint probe of Senate and House of Representatives on the drug war-related extrajudicial killings during the administration of former President Rodrigo Duterte. Rody skips today’s Quad hearing but will attend after Nov. 1 As this developed, Duterte will not attend today’s hearing of Quad Committee, his legal counsel Martin […]
But Court free to use hearing records, transcripts as evidence The executive branch will not endorse to the International Criminal Court the findings of the House Quad Committee that gathered new information on key personalities involved in the Duterte administration’s bloody war on drugs. “The Philippines will not return to the ICC. Based on this, […]