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By Hannah Torregoza
Opposition Senator, Leila de Lima, joined the ranks of 19 other world-renowned human rights activists after being included among prominent human rights defenders of the world whole who participated in the second World Summit of Human Rights Defenders held in Paris last month.
Senator Leila de Lima (REUTERS / Romeo Ranoco / MANILA BULLETIN)
The Summit, which took place from October 29 to 31, paid tribute to all human rights defenders or HRDs who were killed or who were unjustly imprisoned, including Martin Luther King Jr. and Nelson Mandela, but who have contributed a lot to a country's fight for justice. , freedom and democracy.
"We honor all HRDs who are killed or imprisoned. We demand justice for all, we celebrate the struggle of all those who resist despite the risks they face, and we work together to protect HRDs around the world, "reads an article in the HRD World Summit Twitter account. .
To pay tribute to the world of human rights activists, participants from different nationalities gathered at Place du Trocadéro in front of the Palais de Chaillot to present the photographs of all HRDs on October 31st.
The Place du Trocadero is significantly the place where the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was signed 70 years ago.
Abdulhadi al-Khawaja from Bahrain, Narges Mohammad from Iran and Munir Said Thalib from Indonesia, among others, also presented photographs of this event.
De Lima is currently being held at the Philippine National Police (PNP) Detention Center in Camp Crame, Quezon City, on drug charges. It is about fabricated and fabricated accusations by the Duterte administration.
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