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Investigative reporter / Justice, corruption, human rights cluster @rapplerdotcom | LLM Human Rights @BirkbeckLaw | @CheveningFCDO Scholar 2022 | @nujp Board

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The ill gotten wealth takes more than 1 minute to explain, but if we can start with this to get the conversation going. Why not.

Here's an explainer I did during
elections for a snapshot of why, despite the millions in stolen money, no Marcos is in jail.
rappler.com/newsbreak/iq/r…

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The senator's position remains : how can he be held civilly liable when he was criminally absolved? A valid point. From plunder to graft acquittal, the dissents also remain: how can Cambe be convicted but not the principal?

Watch your judiciary. Don't stop asking questions.

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NEW: The P124.5M plundered PDAF is still not collected, 5 years since court's order. The delay is due to the appeal. This money belongs to the Filipino people. We must always insist on our right to know, even if it means writing to courts repeatedly.
rappler.com/newsbreak/data…

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JUST IN. Supreme Court appoints its first female spokesperson, insider Camille Sue Mae Ting.

The High Court also names former ABS-CBN reporter Mike Navallo
as its new PIO chief. | via Jairo Bolledo

JUST IN. Supreme Court appoints its first female spokesperson, insider Camille Sue Mae Ting. The High Court also names former ABS-CBN reporter @mikenavallo as its new PIO chief. | via @jairojourno
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She’s home!

Journalist Patricia Evangelista, author of Some People Need Killing, returns to UP College of Arts and Letters for her book talk on Thursday, April 11.

Today’s event is among the first in the long list of Evangelista’s book tour. Rappler

She’s home! Journalist Patricia Evangelista, author of Some People Need Killing, returns to UP College of Arts and Letters for her book talk on Thursday, April 11. Today’s event is among the first in the long list of Evangelista’s book tour. @rapplerdotcom
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New in climate change litigation: European Court of Human Rights favors the petition of elderly Swiss women who sued their government for climate inaction, their injury being their vulnerability due to old age.
reuters.com/sustainability…

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Reminded today of this tweet. After more than a year, the Supreme Court acting motu proprio (on its own initiative) cited Lorraine Badoy of indirect contempt and fined her P30,000 with a warning that a repetition would lead to more severe sanctions.

rappler.com/philippines/su…

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“Huwag tayo matakot, tayo po ang pinatayan, hindi tayo ang pumatay.Magkuwento tayo nang magkuwento kahit hindi tayo makakuha ng hustisya.'

Jodesz Gavilan writes about Patricia Evangelista's first stop on her book tour: with victims of the drug war.
rappler.com/philippines/vi…

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First stop in Some People Need Killing book tour, the most important people of all: the victims of Rodrigo Duterte's drug war.

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