MANILA -- The Philippine senate on Monday night stripped President Rodrigo Duterte's most vocal critic of the power to lead an investigation on the spate of extrajudicial killings in the government's clampdown on illegal drugs.
In a rare move, the senate, controlled by Duterte's allies, expelled Sen. Leila de Lima as the chairperson of the committee on justice and human rights, which is spearheading a probe on the deaths tied with Duterte's controversial war on drugs, where over 3,000 people linked with narcotic trade have been killed by either police or vigilantes.
