The UN human rights chief said Friday that Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte, who has launched profanity-laced diatribes against United Nations rapporteurs, needs “psychiatric evaluation”. Listing some of Manila’s actions against UN envoys, including reportedly filing terrorism charges against one, rights chief Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein said “it makes one believe that the president of the Philippines needs to submit himself to some sort of psychiatric evaluation”. Zeid and other UN rights officials have focused significant attention on Duterte’s controversial drug war. The UN special rapporteur on extra-judicial killings, Agnes Callamard, has become a particular Duterte target over her criticism of his campaign to stamp out illegal drugs. Terrorism chargeZeid also referred to a pending case against the UN’s special rapporteur on the rights of indigenous people, Victoria Tauli Carpuz.

Source: Hindustan Times March 09, 2018 11:48 UTC