{"id":79771,"date":"2016-08-11T07:26:19","date_gmt":"2016-08-11T11:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=79771"},"modified":"2016-08-11T07:26:19","modified_gmt":"2016-08-11T11:26:19","slug":"senate-sets-inquiry-extra-judicial-killings-aug-22-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2016\/08\/11\/senate-sets-inquiry-extra-judicial-killings-aug-22-23\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate sets inquiry into extra-judicial killings on Aug. 22-23"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_49133\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-49133\" style=\"width: 3500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/leila-de-lima.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-49133\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/leila-de-lima.jpg\" alt=\"Department of Justice Secretary Leila de Lima (Chari Villegas \/ Senate Pool)\" width=\"3500\" height=\"2609\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/leila-de-lima.jpg 3500w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/leila-de-lima-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/leila-de-lima-1024x763.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/leila-de-lima-900x671.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 3500px) 100vw, 3500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-49133\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Senator Leila de Lima (Chari Villegas \/ Senate Pool)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA\u2014The Senate inquiry into the alleged extra-judicial killings and summary execution has been set on Aug. 22 and 23.<\/p>\n<p>This after the Senate committee on justice and human rights approved during the Thursday\u2019s reorganizational meeting the Senate Resolution No. 9 asking for the investigation on the alleged extra-judicial killings under the administration of President Rodrigo Duterte.<\/p>\n<p>Senate committee on justice chairperson Leila de Lima said she wanted to know from the Philippine National Police (PNP) whether all the police operations against drug suspects are legitimate.<\/p>\n<p>According to the reports, almost 500 drug pushers and users have already been killed amid the intensified campaign against illegal drugs by the Duterte administration.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Senators Panfilo Lacson and Alan Peter Cayetano are now convinced to hold a Senate probe on the extra-judicial killings.<\/p>\n<p>Lacson has expressed fears that the Senate inquiry would break the momentum of the government\u2019s successful drive to end the drug problem in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Lacson said he would rather ask the PNP on what solution it has done to stop the summary executions.<\/p>\n<p>Cayetano, for his part, said the Senate should look for the weaknesses and the needs of the PNP to perform effectively their duties as protectors of the people.<\/p>\n<p>The senators agreed not to humiliate the resource persons particularly from the PNP headed by Director General Ronald \u2018Bato\u2019 dela Rosa.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u2014The Senate inquiry into the alleged extra-judicial killings and summary execution has been set on Aug. 22 and 23. This &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":49133,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}