Former senator and fierce critic of Rodrigo Duterte has been held in Manila’s Nationwide Police Headquarters for six years.
A court docket within the Philippines has dismissed considered one of two remaining medicine expenses in opposition to Leila de Lima, a former senator and outspoken critic of ex-president Rodrigo Duterte.
Leila de Lima was arrested in 2017 and accused of taking drug cash only a few months after asserting a Senate investigation into Duterte’s so-called “warfare on medicine”, which rights groups say left 1000’s of, largely poor, younger males useless.
De Lima, now 63, and one other defendant “are hereby acquitted”, mentioned a written copy of the ruling launched on Friday by regional trial court docket choose Abraham Alcantara. Her lawyer additionally confirmed the acquittal.
The previous senator has been held on the Nationwide Police Headquarters for greater than six years.
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