It is a wonder Edgar Matobato is still alive. A confessed assassin for the Davao Death Squad, he was the first to go public ...

MANILA, Philippines – The US bill seeking to sanction the International Criminal Court — blocked by US Democrat senators, for now, as its language is “too broad” — will have a chilling effect on the ...

knew about Matobato’s torture case but told me she was then unaware of the depth of his death squad involvement. As chair of the CHR in 2009, De Lima had held hearings in Davao, vowing to end ...

Edgar Matobato, the self-confessed hitman of the supposed Davao Death Squad, is now under the protective ... obtained by former senator Leila de Lima, she said in an interview on TeleRadyo ...

Leila de Lima, in a previous radio interview ... Matobato had claimed that he was a member of the so-called Davao Death Squad, a group of alleged hired killers under Duterte, then Davao City ...

the self-confessed hitman who alleged that former president Rodrigo Duterte had a death squad in Davao City, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) disclosed in a statement yesterday. The DFA ...

Following reports that confessed hit man Edgar Matobato was able to leave the country under another name, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said on Wednesday that so far, it has not found any ...

Two years later, in 2016, under the guidance of de Lima, Matobato gave his Senate testimony about the Davao Death Squad. He spoke of witnessing Duterte shoot a weapon. Some senators grilled him in ...

There was in fact speculation that Marcos 2.0 had allowed self-confessed Davao Death Squad hitman Edgar Matobato ... Former senator Leila de Lima said Matobato is now in the care of the ICC.