Credit to Author: clopez| Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2019 21:22:42 +0000
Diokno, a former law school dean, said the Philippines would come close to being a “failed state”
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Read moreCredit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2019 05:00:21 +0000
MANILA, Philippines — Human rights lawyer Chel Diokno hailed the recent take-down of Facebook accounts, pages, and groups allegedly engaged in “coordinated inauthentic behavior” but said that the social media giant can do more, and could have done more.
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Read moreCredit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2019 10:31:40 +0000
BAY, Laguna – Opposition senatorial candidate and human rights lawyer Jose Manuel “Chel” Diokno on Wednesday said that the recently released “narco-list” is a violation of the law and due process.
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Credit to Author: eestopace| Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2019 14:10:30 +0000
Human rights lawyer Chel Diokno on Monday admitted that he has a long way to go before he can break into the so-called ‘Magic 12.’
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Credit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2019 08:37:50 +0000
MANILA, Philippines – The brutal murder and suspected rape of a teenager in Lapu-Lapu City recently should not be a ground for the revival of the death penalty, senatorial candidates from the opposition coalition Otso Diretso said on Wednesday.
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Read moreCredit to Author: lalos| Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2019 23:20:29 +0000
By March 17, Filipinos will have lost one of the remedies to abusive and tyrannical regimes as the country’s withdrawal from the International Criminal Court (ICC) takes effect, according to former law dean Chel Diokno.
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Credit to Author: eestopace| Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2019 07:45:49 +0000
Chel Diokno thanked the President on Tuesday for remembering his father, the late democracy icon Sen. Jose “Pepe” W. Diokno.
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Read moreCredit to Author: cbibe| Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2019 04:48:49 +0000
Senatorial candidates and lawyers Hilbay and Diokno reminded President Duterte that the opposition’s role is to check government policies.
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Read moreCredit to Author: jvicente| Date: Sat, 02 Mar 2019 08:56:14 +0000
Human rights lawyer Chel Diokno has called on Philippine National Police (PNP) chief General Oscar Albayalde to ensure the safety of “extrajudicial killing” survivor Roger Herrero.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Alexander Magno| Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2019 11:11:47 +0000
Human rights lawyer and senatorial candidate Jose Manuel “Chel” Diokno on Saturday shot back at critics of his life vest joke, saying they should also ask President Rodrigo Duterte and House Speaker Gloria Macapagal Arroyo if they would be willing to give it to someone else on a sinking ship.
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