Expertos de la ONU reiteran su petición al Gobierno de Duterte para que investigue las ejecuciones en las Filipinas

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Expertos de la ONU reiteran su petición al Gobierno de Duterte para que investigue las ejecuciones en las Filipinas

2 enero 2018

“Exhortamos al Gobierno a que adopte con urgencia las medidas apropiadas para detener estos ataques y asesinatos”, declaró el grupo. Más información, en inglés, está disponible abajo.

By Julliane Love de Jesus

United Nations (UN) human rights experts, including special rapporteur Agnes Callamard, have renewed their call for the Philippine government to promptly investigate the killings in the country despite President Rodrigo Duterte’s strong condemnation and threats against the group for criticizing his brutal drive against illegal drugs.

The three rapporteurs – Callamard as special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions; Michel Forst as special rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders; and Diego García-Sayán as special rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers – issued a joint statement last Thursday from Geneva, Switzerland seeking probe into the killings in the Philippines.

The most recent attack was Duterte’s threat to slap Callamard if the latter would investigate him for the alleged extrajudicial killings in the Philippines.

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