Duterte disputes claims he is silencing critics 109 SHARES Share it! Share TweetBy Genalyn KabilingNo order authorizing the arrest or silencing of government critics has been issued by President Duterte. “I have yet to sign anything ordering the arrest or the silencing of anybody in this government especially the critics,” Duterte said over government television last Tuesday. “I would rise and fall on the proposition that only the President himself physically doing the pardoning and granting the amnesty,” Duterte said. And there are — all the time sa lahat ng ano, they were protecting Aquino,” he added.

Source: Manila Bulletin September 12, 2018 07:18 UTC