Rappler’s justice and human rights cluster continues to uncover human rights abuses and insufficiencies in the justice system, which are either unaddressed problems from the Duterte years or new issues under the Marcos government
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The story is a culmination of seven months’ worth of Freedom of Information requests with various agencies. The Department of Justice has since opened another reinvestigation.The Duterte dynasty owns a combined 654 firearms shared among former president Rodrigo Duterte, Vice President Sara Duterte, Davao City 1st District Representative Paolo Duterte, Davao City Mayor Sebastian Duterte, and the vice president’s husband, Manases Carpio.
Cordoba, our three-month investigation found, married into a big fishing operator family and awarded a contract to a firm linked to the former solicitor general, who helped fight the tracker. Cordoba is President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s audit chairperson. A related update to this story: On the outside, the Marcos government had shown improvements in upholding the rights of activists and other dissenters. But under the radar, the government continued to file cases under either the anti-terror law or anti-terrorism financing law. This time, however, these were against ‘easy targets’ or ordinary people linked to activism either through family or previous affiliations.
We visited prisons, talked to jail officials, lawyers, and detainees, and combined their narratives with the data we obtained and analyzed. An alarming big picture emerged: that six years of Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs did not only kill an estimated 30,000, it also imprisoned tens of thousands of drug suspects who suffocated courts and prisons.
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