Anna Tolentino

1 month ago | benarnews.org | Jason Gutierrez |jojo Riñoza |Anna Tolentino

Wearing her glasses and trademark printed scarf, former Sen. Leila de Lima waded patiently through university students who mobbed her as she left a campaign stop in the northern Philippines. The ex-senator and former Philippines justice secretary is on the comeback trail, after having spent nearly seven years as a “prisoner of conscience” jailed under President Rodrigo Duterte and later Ferdinand Marcos Jr. De Lima was incarcerated over drug-related charges she says were trumped up.