Rights group: 59 lawyers slain in 6 years in Philippines
AT LEAST 133 lawyers have been killed in the Philippines since the 1980s in work-related attacks, nearly half of them in the last six years during former President Rodrigo Duterte’s turbulent term, a prominent group of lawyers said Saturday, Oct. 15, 2022.
The lawyers’ group reported to its members in a conference on Saturday that 59 of the 133 lawyers killed in the country since 1984 were slain under Duterte. With the advent of social media, threats have become prevalent online with member lawyers becoming frequent targets of false accusations “and wrongful branding as terrorists, communists or destabilizers,” Pinlac said.
“We will not become extinct. We will multiply,” Olalia said. “We will flourish until our raison d’etre for being people’s lawyers ceases.”
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