{"id":37894,"date":"2021-10-11T08:45:38","date_gmt":"2021-10-10T23:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/11\/we-have-to-show-courage-the-philippines-mothers-taking-duterte-and-his-war-on-drugs-to-court"},"modified":"2021-10-11T08:45:38","modified_gmt":"2021-10-10T23:45:38","slug":"we-have-to-show-courage-the-philippines-mothers-taking-duterte-and-his-war-on-drugs-to-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=37894","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We have to show courage\u2019: the Philippines mothers taking Duterte and his \u2018war on drugs\u2019 to court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Up to 30,000 are believed to have died since the president urged police to start killing drug users \u2013 now their families want justice<\/p>\n<p>On 11 May 2017, Crisanto Lozano set off early in the morning from his home in Manila. He was going to renew his security guard licence, a requirement for his profession. By afternoon, he still hadn\u2019t returned, nor was he picking up his phone. Then the family realised that Crisanto\u2019s younger brother, Juan Carlos, was also missing.<\/p>\n<p>The next day, they heard news that two bodies had been discovered nearby. The brothers had been shot dead during a police operation.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/11\/we-have-to-show-courage-the-philippines-mothers-taking-duterte-and-his-war-on-drugs-to-court\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Up to 30,000 are believed to have died since the president urged police to start killing drug users \u2013 now their families want justiceOn 11 May 2017, Crisanto Lozano set off early in the morning from his home in Manila. He was going to renew his securit&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":860,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,55,204,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-philippines","category-rodrigo-duterte","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/860"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37894"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37895,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37894\/revisions\/37895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}