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De Lima composed, but blood pressure spikes after arrest

Senator Leila De Lima kept shaking her head while the Philippine National Police (PNP) Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) was taking her mugshot and fingerprints

Following her voluntary surrender, the lady senator was accompanied by Rep. Bag-ao and Senator Francis Pangilinan at the PNP national headquarters in Camp Crame where she was brought by the CIDG tea.

Senator Pangilinan said De Lima’s blood pressure spiked when she underwent a medical examination as part of the booking procedure for her arrest.

Prior to detention, De Lima maintained her innocence and claimed that her arrest was President Rodrigo Duterte’s way of silencing critics.

“Clearly, this administration has evil and dangerous plans: to make an example of me to intimidate, silence, and destroy anyone who dares challenge them; to draw public attention away from the government’s abuses and failures; and to cover up their most murderous war on drugs,” De Lima said in a video message recorded at the Senate prior to her arrest.

De Lima said Duterte has had a “fixation for revenge” against her after she called for an investigation against the alleged Davao Death Squad during her tenure as Commission on Human Rights chair.

De Lima, arrested at the Senate Friday morning, was presented to the Muntinlupa Regional Trial Court before she underwent booking procedures at Camp Crame.

Police took her mug shots before she was brought to what sources claim was a “decent, dignified” detention cell.

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