The Philippine National Police (PNP) on Wednesday said it hopes that an amendment passed by the US House of Representatives limiting US assistance to the police organization will be reconsidered.
In a press conference, PNP spokesperson Police Colonel Jean Fajardo said the police organization will address the matter through diplomatic channels.
On July 14, US lawmakersin the proposed National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023 “until a series of human rights requirements are met.” “After an estimated 30,000 extrajudicial killings in the Philippines between 2016 and today, after the assassinations, arbitrary arrests, torture, and red-tagging of labor organizers and oppositions leaders, after former President [Rodrigo] Duterte’s calls for assassinating politically engaged bishops, and after the Philippines has been named year after year by the International Trade Union Confederation as one of the world’s 10 most repressive countries for the labor movement and workers, the...
Under the amendment, the US Secretary of State and Defense should certify first that the Philippine government has already “investigated and successfully prosecuted members of the PNP who have violated human rights,” before providing assistance.
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