Former senator Leila de Lima has been in jail since 2016. Read more at straitstimes.com.
On July 25, 2016, as he was making his way to the stage to deliver his first State of the Nation Address as Philippine president, Mr Rodrigo Duterte took an unexpected detour and headed to where then Senator Leila de Lima was seated in the front row and shook her hand.
Months later, on Feb 24, 2017, Ms De Lima was arrested and held at a jail cell inside the Philippine police’s headquarters in the capital Manila, where she remains to this day. Mr Duterte’s allies in Congress paraded in their public hearings narcotics kingpins who said in exchange for the money they supposedly gave Ms De Lima, they got unfettered access to luxuries including golf carts, truckloads of beer, mobile phones, laptops and prostitutes.
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