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2017-02-24 Southeast Asia
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Top critic of Duterte’s drug war dodges arrest
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[SCMP] An arrest warrant was issued Thursday for the highest-profile opponent of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s deadly war on drugs, but she dodged police and sought refuge in the Senate.
The planned arrest of Senator Leila de Lima outraged her supporters and human rights
...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions...
activists, who said the government had manufactured drug trafficking charges to silence her criticism of Duterte and intimidate others.
The 57-year-old lawyer, who has spent nearly a decade trying to link Duterte to death squads that have allegedly killed thousands of people, could be incarcerated
Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw!
for life if she is found guilty of drug trafficking.
"I have no plans of fleeing and I have no plans to go in hiding. I will face all these charges," a tearful De Lima told news hounds at the Senate in the early evening after a Manila court issued the arrest warrant. 
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