'It is high time for the administration of President Marcos Jr. to close this case once and for all, provide compensation and other reparations, and investigate the circumstances that allowed this to happen in the first place,' the UN experts say.
“We have long called for the immediate release of Leila de Lima,” the UN experts said in a press release dated June 16.
“The decision to deny bail comes after more than six years of arbitrary detention. It is high time for the administration of President Marcos Jr. to close this case once and for all, provide compensation and other reparations, and investigate the circumstances that allowed this to happen in the first place,” they added.
Among the UN experts who demanded De Lima’s release are Priya Gopalan, chair-rapporteur of the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, Irene KhanSpecial Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression, and Morris Tidball-BinzThe experts also noted that the UN Working Group on Arbitrary detentionin 2018 that De Lima’s detention was arbitrary and “her deprivation of liberty was a result of her personal beliefs and public statements regarding...
The same UN body also said in 2018 that De Lima’s detention came from her exercise of right to political participation, “and was imposed through a process that did not respect the basic guarantees of a fair trial.”
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