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UN rights experts urge Philippines to end wave of extrajudicial killings amid major drug crackdown
Aug 19, 2016, at 01:22 pm
New York, Aug 19 (Just Earth News): Amid a recent massive anti-crime and anti-drug crackdown in the Philippines that has claimed the lives of more than 850 suspected criminals, two United Nations human rights experts on Thursday urged the Government to end the wave of extrajudicial executions and killings, stressing that drug charges should be “judged in a court of law, not by gunmen on the streets.â€
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