Human Rights

Philippines' Duterte tells UN expert to 'go to hell'

AFP; Manila, Jun 3 : President Rodrigo Duterte has told a United Nations rights expert to "go to hell" over criticism of the Philippine leader for threatening the country's top judge.

Duterte's latest profanity-laced diatribe came after Diego Garcia-Sayan, the UN special rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers, said the president's statements against former chief justice Maria Lourdes Sereno were a "vicious attack" on the judiciary.

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