Columbia Neuroscientist Receives Death Threats for Speaking Out Against Deadly Philippines Drug War
by mail@democracynow.org (Democracy Now!) from Democracy Now! on (#2PHNG)
President Trump recently invited Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte to visit the White House, despite criticism from human rights groups over Duterte's so-called war on drugs, during which thousands of people have been extrajudicially killed by police and vigilantes. Our guest, neuroscientist Carl Hart, recently attended a drug conference in Manila. He had to leave the Philippines after his life was threatened.