Thursday, February 9, 2017

Duterte's war on drugs new victim is the PH criminal justice system. - IBP Surigao Chapter: "We withdraw our representation from all drug cases starting today until all perpetrators are apprehended. We will not be able to do our jobs if our lives and the lives of our families are in peril."





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INQUIRER.net / 06:28 PM February 07, 2017


The Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP)-Surigao del Norte chapter has decided to withdraw their representation on drug cases in their jurisdiction to protest the killing of retired Surigao city judge Victor Canoy early this week and the assassination attempt against Surigao city prosecutor Manuel Tesiorna Monday.

“We are protesting the shallow understanding of the legal process, which prompted the accusation of our colleagues as alleged drug coddlers and protectors because of the drug cases that have been dismissed in their respective officers. We withdraw our representation from all drug cases starting today until all perpetrators are apprehended. We will not be able to do our jobs if our lives and the lives of our families are in peril,” said the statement signed by its chapter president Atty. Noel Pangilinan.

The group said they took such action to call the attention of the authorities to the threats they and their families are receiving since some of them started handling drug-related cases.

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