Senator Leila de Lima on Friday thanked her Liberal Party (LP) colleagues for pushing for her release. The LP’s National Executive Council (Neco) on Tuesday, Sept. 25, adopted Resolution No. Neco-2018-02, which calls for the immediate release of De Lima and seeks to create a task group to support her concerns. She said justice will prevail against the President and his allies “when the day of reckoning comes.”De Lima has been detained at the custodial center of the Philippine National Police (PNP) in Camp Crame since February 2017 for drug charges. /mufRead Next

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer September 28, 2018 03:45 UTC