Jose Manuel Diokno

Free Legal Assistance Group

One of the Philippine’s foremost human rights attorneys Chairman of the Free Legal Assistance Group

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In last month’s inaugural address as President of the Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte said his war on drugs would be “relentless” and “sustained.”

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