A rare conviction in the Philippines - Cop jailed a minimum of 20 years for killing teens in drug war conviction


Manila, March 14, 2023 (AFP): A Philippine police officer has been found guilty of killing two teenagers during former president Rodrigo Duterte's drug war, court documents showed Tuesday, in a rare conviction of one of the crackdown's enforcers.

During his six-year term, which ended in June 2022, Duterte openly ordered police to shoot dead drug suspects if officers' lives were in danger.

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