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Pemberton pardon an 'affront' to LGBTQI community: rights body

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Sep 09 2020 02:15 PMMANILA - President Rodrigo Duterte's grant of absolute pardon to convicted killer US Marine Lance Cpl. Joseph Scott Pemberton is an "affront" to the LGBT community, the Commission on Human Rights said Wednesday.Duterte had pardoned Pemberton, found guilty of homicide for the October 2014 slay of Filipino transgender woman Jennifer Laude, just as the justice department planned to question his early release that a court granted him due to supposed good conduct.

The CHR recognizes Duterte's power to grant pardon but said there was "still an obligation to account for the exercise of the pardon, to wield this power with prudence and sensitivity to the plight of victims," CHR Commissioner Karen Gomez-Dumpit said."Granting a.

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