News: House panel wants charges filed vs Duterte et al. for 'crimes against humanity'

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House panel wants charges filed vs Duterte et al. for 'crimes against humanity'

December 19, 2024

TEARS OF JOY BEFORE CHANGE OF JAIL Convicted overseas Filipino worker Mary Jane Veloso meets her family and relatives at the Correctional Institution for Women in Mandaluyong City, where she was taken shortly after arrival in the Philippines on Wednesday morning. She was granted a prison transfer from Indonesia where she has been in jail for drug trafficking for the past 14 years. —NIÑO JESUS ORBETA/BUREAU OF CORRECTIONS

Hi there. House panel wants charges filed vs Duterte et al. for 'crimes against humanity'

The House quad committee's explosive recommendation: Ex-President Rodrigo Duterte, Senators Bong Go and Bato dela Rosa, and four former police officers should be charged with crimes against humanity for the drug war that killed thousands of Filipinos.

Mary Jane Veloso is back on PH soil after over 14 years in an Indonesian jail. At the Correctional Institution for Women where she was immediately taken upon her arrival, Veloso again appealed to President Marcos to grant her executive clemency.

Amid public fury over fund cuts and other controversial items seen in the General Appropriations Bill for 2025, the Palace said the President will not sign the bill on Friday as earlier planned, but will instead scrutinize and veto parts of the budget.

Pandi, Bulacan Mayor Enrico Roque and two others, including a town councilor, have been arrested for two counts of rape filed by a 17-year-old girl in 2019, based on an arrest warrant from the Caloocan City RTC, with no bail recommended.

Hundreds of thousands of Syrians are estimated to have been killed since the start of the Syrian civil war in 2011, with emerging mass graves exposing a state-run "machinery of death" under the regime of now-toppled dictator Bashar al-Assad.

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