{"id":68683,"date":"2025-01-01T23:00:16","date_gmt":"2025-01-01T14:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jan\/01\/critic-wrongly-jailed-by-former-president-of-philippines-hopes-to-return-to-politics"},"modified":"2025-01-01T23:00:16","modified_gmt":"2025-01-01T14:00:16","slug":"critic-wrongly-jailed-by-former-president-of-philippines-hopes-to-return-to-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=68683","title":{"rendered":"Critic wrongly jailed by former president of Philippines hopes to return to politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leila de Lima enraged Rodrigo Duterte when she began investigating killings carried out during his \u2018war on drugs\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Leila de Lima, one of fiercest critics of the former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte\u2019s bloody \u201cwar on drugs\u201d who was jailed for more than six years on baseless charges, will try to return to politics in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>De Lima was one of the few politicians who criticised Duterte during his time in office, and enraged the former leader when she began investigating killings carried out during his anti-drugs crackdowns. She knew to expect retaliation, she said. \u201cI thought it would just be regular vilification, the slut-shaming, the verbal attacks,\u201d she said. She did not anticipate that she would spend more than six and a half years in prison.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jan\/01\/critic-wrongly-jailed-by-former-president-of-philippines-hopes-to-return-to-politics\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leila de Lima enraged Rodrigo Duterte when she began investigating killings carried out during his \u2018war on drugs\u2019Leila de Lima, one of fiercest critics of the former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte\u2019s bloody \u201cwar on drugs\u201d who was jailed for more t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":888,"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-68683","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\/68683","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\/888"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68683"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68684,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68683\/revisions\/68684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}