Dispatch from Crame No. 825: Sen. Leila M. de Lima on the PDEA Facebook Page for Reporting Illegal Drug Activities
While the rest of the country is busy dealing with the pandemic, the infamous Drug War hardly missed a beat as at least 50 drug-related killings have been recorded since March 15. To compound the problem, PDEA Director Wilkins Villanueva recently announced that they had now created a Facebook page named “Isumbong mo kay Wilkins” […]
Dispatch from Crame No. 824: Sen. Leila M. de Lima on Duterte’s apathy towards jeepney drivers
“Gutom ang papatay sa amin, hindi COVID.” Ito po ang hinaing ng marami nating jeepney drivers ngayon dahil sa kawalang plano at malasakit sa kanila ng gobyerno. Ginawa pang dahilan ang pandemya hindi lang para pansamantalang ipatigil ang kanilang pamamasada, kundi para tuluyan nang ipagbawal ang mga lumang jeepney. Ang ilan tuloy sa kanila, namamalimos […]
Dispatch from Crame No. 823: Sen. Leila M. de Lima’s Statement on Sen. Dela Rosa’s Warning to Critics of the Anti-Terror Bill
Sen. Bato Dela Rosa said that those who are against the anti-terror bill becoming law have only themselves to blame if it does not become law and they become victims of terrorism. Rather than chastise a woke citizenry defending their democracy, Dela Rosa’s statement is actually an indictment of the State’s security forces, one half […]
Dispatch from Crame No. 822: Sen. Leila M. de Lima’s Quick Reaction to the Guilty Verdict vs. Maria Ressa and Reynaldo Santos, Jr.
The decision to convict CEO Maria Ressa and former Rappler researcher Reynaldo Santos, Jr. for cyber libel (while certainly appealable) is but another demonstration of the Duterte government’s weaponization of law against those who dare speak truth to power. Jailing me for over three years now is only one of the thousand sinister ways they […]
Dispatch from Crame No. 821: Sen. Leila M. de Lima on Anti-Terror Act and oppression
Magtiwala raw tayo kay Duterte sa paggamit niya sa Anti-Terror Act dahil hindi raw niya gawain ang manggipit gamit ang batas. Ano ang tawag nila sa ginawa sa akin? Joke lang?
Dispatch from Crame No. 820: Sen. Leila M. de Lima on the relaxing of the strict, no visitors policy at the PNP Custodial Center
Finally, the strict no access, no visitors policy here at the PNP Custodial Center has been relaxed, by allowing scheduled visits, on specific days a week, from family members and selected staff, lawyers, personal doctors and spiritual advisers, all in limited nos. and limited time slots. No other visitors are allowed at this point. While […]
COMMENTS ON THE 11th WEEKLY REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT DATED 8 June 2020
I humbly submit my comments on the President’s 11th Weekly Report dated 8 June 2020, in compliance with Section 5 of Republic Act No. 11469: The DSWD failed to provide any explanation about its inability to distribute the cash aid to 305, 647 poor households, thereby missing its own adjusted target of reaching 17,938,422 families, despite […]
Dispatch from Crame No. 818: Sen. Leila M. de Lima on the government’s implementation of the Jeepney Modernization Program and Motorcycle Crime Prevention Act
Wala na ba talagang pakialam ang gobyernong ito sa mahihirap? Just look at their insistence on the implementation of the Jeepney Modernization Program—the phasing out of old units—and the Motorcycle Crime Prevention Act or the “Doble Plaka” Law requiring bigger plate numbers on motorcycles. These are clearly anti-poor measures, which will clearly bring more suffering […]
Dispatch from Crame No. 817: Sen. Leila M. de Lima’s Statement on Her Continued Incommunicado Detention
It is now Day 6 of GCQ in NCR. Still, there is no change in the no visitors policy here at the PNP Custodial Center. For one (1) month and 11 days already, I remain inaccessible to anyone, save for the custodial personnel. Yesterday morning, my Chief-of-Staff, Atty. Fhillip Sawali, Atty. Chel Diokno, one of […]
Dispatch from Crame No. 816: Sen. Leila M. de Lima’s statement on SolGen Calida’s Flaunting of his Legal Victories during a recent House Hearing, re: ABS-CBN
SOLGEN Calida thinks he is a crusader, a knight in shining armor, when he professes to be fighting for a just cause in jailing me, ousting former Chief Justice Sereno, and shutting down ABS-CBN. He is proud of this record and his shameless prostitution of the law and rape of justice in accordance with Duterte’s […]