“Duterte needs a psychiatric evaluation”

“This makes the fact that the president of the Philippines needs a psychiatric evaluation,” said senior commissioner of the United Nations Human Rights Office Zeid Ra properad Al Hussein, commenting on the recent charges against UN officials for human rights coming from Manila.

The name of one of the UN human rights experts, Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, recently appeared among the 600 others in a government petition submitted to a court in Manila last month, reports “Sputnik International” Transmission Periscope.

Those mentioned in the document are accused of terrorism and suspected members of the New People's Army and the Communist Party of the Philippines.

According to her colleagues, the charges came after her public criticism of the murders and attacks on the Lumad people by Filipina Armed Forces members in Mindanao./Periscopi/