FILIPINO witnesses who were invited and would appear before the Hong Kong authorities’ own investigation of the 2010 Manila hostage-taking are to be protected from prosecution, Justice Secretary Leila de Lima assured on Friday.

The witnesses, however, could be charged with perjury or contempt, de Lima said.

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