Walang patawad! IBP dismayed over killing of abogados under Duterte

The Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP) has expressed dismay over the continued killings of lawyers in the country.

“The IBP grieves and is appalled by the increasing and sheer number of assasinations of lawyers, judges, and prosecutors with impunity,” it said in a statement.

It cited that just last July 14 lawyer Sitti Gilda Mahinay Sapie was killed along with her husband Muhaimen Mohammad Sapie in Davao City last July 14.

Prior this, the IBP said that on June 23 Ilagan City Deputy Prosecutor Victor Begtang Jr. Was gunned down inside his house in Apayao.

Despite this, the IBP has vowed to help the families of the victims in achieving justice.

“As such, the IBP will continue to work with the Supreme Court, the Department of Justice, the National Bureau of Investigation and the Philippine National Police to address and arrest these rising attacks against its members just as it calls upon our police and investigative agencies to formulate and implement specific measures to improve the security of lawyers, judges and prosecutors and to expeditiously resolve its investigations on these killings so that the perpetrators are swiftly and truly held accountable,” it stated.

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