The Philippine government said it would prosecute a police officer over the deaths of a mother and son, after a video of the point blank shooting went viral in social media, prompting renewed ...

Hundreds of police in the Philippines will start wearing body cameras during operations, it police chief said on Friday, heeding demands from human rights groups for accountability after thousands ...

In the latest episode, we talk with Brandon about state violence in the Philippines under the governments of Duterte and Marcos Jr. against social movements and communities. We also talk about how ...

Philippine police officials said Thursday they are checking reports that a kidnapped American died after being shot twice while resisting his Oct. 17 abduction by gunmen in the country’s south.

The commission said it reviewed 579 incidents of “drug-frelated extrajudicial killings” and violence from 2016 to February 2020, 451 of which were allegedly linked to police operations and ...

The Marcos administration should initiate sweeping reforms in Philippine law enforcement in response to recent congressional hearings on police corruption and abuse in the “war on drugs".

The municipal hall of Shariff Saydona Mustapha town in Maguindanao del Sur and the town’s police station flew the Philippine flag at half-staff on Thursday to mourn the ...

A fatal beating by police, caught on video, but will it just be another example of police brutality in the #Philippines in which no one is punished? Read more in @astroehlein’s Daily Brief for @hrw: ...

Philippines election hopefuls like mayoral candidate Kerwin Espinosa have to ask themselves whether the job is worth taking a bullet. Money, power, violence in high-stakes Philippine elections ...

MANILA, Philippines — Philippine police officials said Thursday they are checking reports that a kidnapped American died after being shot twice while resisting his Oct. 17 abduction by gunmen in ...