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2017-02-25 Southeast Asia
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Top Philippine Drug war Critic Arrested, but Defiant
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[ENGLISH.ALMANAR.LB] The highest-profile critic of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s brutal drug war was incarcerated
Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up!
Friday on charges she said were meant to silence her, but she vowed to keep fighting the "sociopathic serial killer".
Speaking to journalists minutes before armed police in flak jackets detained her, Senator Leila de Lima insisted she was innocent of the drug trafficking charges that could see her tossed in the slammer
Please don't kill me!
for life.
"It is my honor to be imprisoned for the things I am fighting for. Please pray for me," De Lima, 57, said outside her Senate office where she had sought temporary refuge overnight after an arrest warrant was issued Thursday.
"They will not be able to silence me and stop me from fighting for the truth and justice and against the daily killings and repression by the Duterte regime."
De Lima also recorded a polemical video just before her arrest as she called for ordinary Filipinos to show courage and oppose Duterte’s drug war, which has seen more than 6,500 people killed since he took office eight months ago. 
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