Laude family condemns pardon granted to Pemberton
“On behalf of the Laude family and the entire membership of KILUSAN and KAISA KA, we strongly denounce the ABSOLUTE PARDON given by Duterte,” Atty. Virginia Lacsa Suarez, the legal counsel of the Laude family, said in a statement.
Suarez described the grant of the pardon as “a travesty of Philippine sovereignty and democracy” and “another hallmark of Philippine’s subservience to the US.” Suarez also lamented the killing of Laude “reflects the systematic discrimination and violence inflicted by US to Filipino women, children and the LGBTQ community.”
“Karapatan strongly denounces President Rodrigo Duterte’s granting of absolute pardon to convicted US marine Joseph Scott Pemberton as a despicable and shameless mockery of justice and servility to US imperialist interests,” human rights group Karapatan said in a statement.
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