No evidence yet of rights groups’ drug ties – PDEA

LAW enforcement agencies involved in the anti-drug war are investigating the alleged links of human rights groups to drug syndicates aiming to discredit the government, officials said on Tuesday.

In a news conference in Malacañang, Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) spokesman Derrick Carreon said the claims of Palace spokesman Harry Roque Jr. and Foreign Affairs Secretary Alan Peter Cayetano that drug lords were using rights groups to attack the government’s anti-drug efforts were based on recent findings that would have to be investigated first.