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PHILIPPINES: UN EXPERTS DEMAND IMMEDIATE RELEASE OF EX-LAWMAKER LEILA DE LIMA

16 June 2023


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GENEVA (16 June 2023) – UN experts* today expressed “grave disappointment” after
a Philippine court denied bail to former senator Leila de Lima, prolonging her
six-year detention even after key witnesses withdrew evidence against her.

“We have long called for the immediate release of Leila de Lima,” the experts
said. “The decision to deny bail comes after more than six years of arbitrary
detention. It is high time for the administration of President Marcos Jr. to
close this case once and for all, provide compensation and other reparations,
and investigate the circumstances that allowed this to happen in the first
place.”

Leila de Lima, also a former chairperson of the National Commission on Human
Rights, from 2008 to 2010 and Secretary of Justice, from 2010 to 2015, has been
in pre-trial detention since 2017. In August 2018, the UN Working Group on
Arbitrary Detention found that her detention was arbitrary and that her
deprivation of liberty was a result of her personal beliefs and public
statements regarding extrajudicial killings in the Philippines during the
administration of then-President Rodrigo Duterte. In September 2020 she filed a
bill to the Senate to stop extra-judicial killings, ensure an independent
investigation of summary killings and provide compensation for victims.

UN experts previously welcomed de Lima’s acquittal, on 17 February 2021, in one
of the three cases against her. The former Senator was acquitted in the second
case in May 2023, after key witnesses withdraw their evidence.

In a 2021 report, the Working Group said: “According to international human
rights law, personal liberty is the principle, and detention should be the
exception rather than the rule.” The experts stressed that international
standards also require that non-custodial measures be prioritised for women.

“We are deeply concerned that after six years of arbitrary detention, Leila de
Lima will now continue to be detained after her bail application was denied on 7
June 2023,” the UN experts said.

In its 2018 opinion, the UN Working Group found that Senator de Lima’s detention
resulted from her exercise of the right to political participation, freedom of
opinion and expression, thought and conscience, and was imposed through a
process that did not respect the basic guarantees of a fair trial.

*The experts: Priya Gopalan (Chair-Rapporteur), Matthew Gillett(Vice-Chair on
Communications), Ganna Yudkivska (Vice-Chair on Follow-Up), Miriam
Estrada-Castillo, and Mumba Malila, Working Group on arbitrary detention; Irene
Khan, Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom
of opinion and expression; Reem Alsalem, Special Rapporteur on violence against
women and girls, its causes and consequences; Morris Tidball-Binz, Special
Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions; Dorothy Estrada
Tanck (Chair), Ivana Radačić (Vice-Chair), Elizabeth Broderick, Meskerem Geset
Techane and Melissa Upreti, Working Group on discrimination against women and
girls; Margaret Satterthwaite, Special Rapporteur on the Independence of Judges
and Lawyers.

The Special Rapporteurs, Independent Experts and Working Groups are part of what
is known as the Special Procedures of the Human Rights Council. Special
Procedures, the largest body of independent experts in the UN Human Rights
system, is the general name of the Council’s independent fact-finding and
monitoring mechanisms that address either specific country situations or
thematic issues in all parts of the world. Special Procedures’ experts work on a
voluntary basis; they are not UN staff and do not receive a salary for their
work. They are independent from any government or organization and serve in
their individual capacity.

UN Human Rights, Country Page – Philippines

For further information and media inquiries, please contact Lucie Viersma
(lucie.viersma@un.org) of hrc-wg-ad@un.org.

For media inquiries related to other UN independent experts, please contact Maya
Derouaz (maya.derouaz@un.org) or Dharisha Indraguptha
(dharisha.indraguptha@un.org)

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