Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, December 5) — A foreign magazine recognized detained Senator Leila de Lima as one of the "Leading Global Thinkers" for standing up to President Rodrigo Duterte, for the second consecutive year.
"From the beginning, (Senator) de Lima knew how dangerous her unfettered criticism of her country's leader might prove," Foreign Policy magazine Associate Editor Benjamin Soloway wrote.
De Lima, one of the President's staunchest critics, has been in detention since February over her alleged involvement in the New Bilibid Prison drug trade during her stint as Justice Secretary from 2010 to 2015.
"The government is trying to 'totally silence dissent and cultivate a culture of double standard of justice, where those allied with the president and his family are accorded impunity,' (De Lima) says, 'while dissenters are being harassed with all sorts of charges,'" Soloway added.
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