Philippine law enforcers arrest Duterte critic on drug charges
Source: Reuters
WORLD NEWS | Thu Feb 23, 2017 | 8:17pm EST
Philippine law enforcers arrest Duterte critic on drug charges
A Philippines Senator and staunch critic of President Rodrigo Duterte's war on drugs was arrested on Friday after charges were filed in court alleging she received money from drug dealers inside the country's prisons.
Senator Leila de Lima, her former driver and bodyguard and a former national prison official were ordered to be arrested by a local court after a judge found merit in criminal charges filed by the Department of Justice last week.
"The truth will come out and I will achieve justice. I am innocent," she told reporters shortly before law enforcers escorted her away from her office.
She is facing two more drug-related charges in the same court.
De Lima, a human rights lawyer before joining government, says the charges are a vendetta against her after she last year led a Senate probe into alleged extrajudicial killings during Duterte's anti-drugs crackdown.
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