Various Facebook Duterte supporter groups such as “Duterte Warriors”, “Duterte News Global”, and “Duterte Media” have been sharing news of President Duterte being awarded by the International Human Rights Committee.
According to the news article sourced from Trending News PH, President Rodrigo Duterte was named as one of the honorees in the annual Human Rights Award held by the International Human Rights Committee.
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The committee was said to have bestowed this award to Duterte for his “exemplary service in the promotion of human rights.”
However, the said article is not linked to any other source and no major news outlets have reported on the headline. Furthermore, upon closer inspection, there are numerous inconsistencies on the dates the groups posted the article.
The article itself was posted 4 months ago while the groups posted on September and October, with the “Duterte Warriors” group sharing the post twice, once in August and another in September. What was the point of posting the same news article more than once and on different months?
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No matter how many times these pages are going to share and re-share the article about Duterte’s alleged award from a human rights group, it does not change the fact that Duterte has had issues with human rights groups and advocates for his war on drugs. In fact, recently, the group Human Rights Watch said that Duterte should renounce his earlier statement that seemed to threaten the lawyers of alleged drug dealers.
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“Duterte’s threats against lawyers and human rights defenders constitute a dangerous extension of his abusive ‘war on drugs’ that has already resulted in more than 5,000 killings,” HRW deputy Asia director Phelim Kine said.
Moreover, the photo used in the article was originally a photo taken during LPU’s Quality Awards Convocation wherein Duterte, still a mayor that time, was awarded as the Most Outstanding Alumnus of Lyceum of the Philippines University in 2015.
Sources: (newsinfo.inquirer.net, philstar.com)
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