Philippine leader pardons US Marine in killing of transgender woman
By JIM GOMEZ | Associated Press | Published: September 7, 2020
MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine president pardoned a U.S. Marine on Monday in a surprise move that will free him from imprisonment in the 2014 killing of a transgender Filipino woman that sparked anger in the former American colony.
Foreign Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. said in a tweet that President Rodrigo Duterte “granted an absolute pardon†to Lance Cpl. Joseph Scott Pemberton “to do justice," but did not elaborate.
A left-wing human rights group, Karapatan, immediately condemned the pardon as a “despicable and shameless mockery of justice and servility to U.S. imperialist interests."
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