BACOLOD CITY --- Members of the Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP)-Negros Occidental chapter are wearing black arm-bands for a week to demand justice for the killing of a lawyer known here for handling drug cases. The protest action kicked off with a Mass at the Bacolod City Hall of Justice lobby about8:30 a.m.on Wednesday. About 100 lawyers attended. The lawyers were calling for an end to extrajudicial killings and for upholding the rule of law and judicial processes following the killing of 62-year-old lawyer Raphael Atotubo. Atotubo was notarizing documents in a makeshift tent in front of his house in Barangay 20, Bacolod, when a gunman alighted from a motorcycle and sho...
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