Murderous War on Defense Lawyers in the Philippines
On March 13 at about 7 pm, a 41-year-old defense lawyer and leftist activist named Rex Jasper Lopoz opened the passenger door of his car outside the City Mall in Tagum City in the country's deep south and started to climb in, to have a gunman riding tandem on a passing motorcycle fire a .22 caliber bullet into his back.
The bullet glanced off Lopoz’s spi…
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