MANILA, Philippines — Drug war whistleblower and former police officer Royina Garma returned to the Philippines on Saturday after nearly 10 months in the United States, the Bureau of Immigration (BI) confirmed.
Immigration spokesman Dana Sandoval said Garma arrived at about 7 p.m. and underwent standard arrival procedures just like any other Filipino returning from abroad.
Garma left the country in November 2024, days after publicly confirming the existence of former president Rodrigo Duterte’s so-called Davao Death Squad and the reward system tied to his bloody drug war.
She was apprehended upon arrival in San Francisco and detained at the South Louisiana Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Processing Center while seeking political asylum., This news data comes from:http://xx.xs888999.com
Her asylum bid was denied, and she was placed under US custody for eight months before her return.
Drug war whistleblower Royina Garma returns to PH after US detention
- Monsoon rains flood Mandaluyong, Parañaque — MMDA
- Madagascar welcomes home skulls of Indigenous warriors taken by French colonial troops 128 years ago
- Lacson to Marcoleta: I don’t want a fight but I won’t back down from one
- Evicted from their forests, Kenyan hunter-gatherers fight for their rights
- Escudero subpoenas 5 contractors, 3 DPWH executives to Senate probe
- Trump health misinformation swirls despite denial
- Search for survivors after Afghan earthquake kills 800
- ‘God’s Influencer’ to become first millennial saint
- Alice Guo faces new cases over POGO land
- LPA has big chance of intensifying into tropical cyclone to be named ‘Kiko’
