MANILA, Philippines — Senator Leila de Lima on Tuesday accused the Department of Justice (DOJ) of wanting “to deny transparency to the conduct of the trial” on her drug case.
This after the DOJ asked a Muntinlupa City court to cite the detained lawmaker and her lawyer in contempt for making public certain developments about her indictment.
“There is only one reason why a government and its prosecution arm, in this case, the DOJ, would want our camp barred from sharing with the public the trial developments, particularly the material points or truths extracted from my lawyers’ cross-examination of prosecution witnesses,” De Lima said in a dispatch from Camp Crame in Quezon City.
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