Roughly 300,000 drug suspects have been jailed without due process since the start of the ‘drug war,’ forcing them to live in inhumane conditions in the detention centres. Therefore, these are treated as victims of forced eviction, as well as detention, with all the other corresponding human rights violations. “Philippines: Nearly 300,000 drug suspects have been jailed in ’war on drugs’,” Civicus (16 July 2021), https://www.civicus.org/index.php/media-resources/news/united-nations/geneva/5184-philippines-nearly-300-000-drug-suspects-have-been-jailed-in-war-on-drugs.

Within the general crackdown, between March and November 2020, at least 134,298 were arrested also for allegedly violating community quarantine guidelines.mJodesz Gavilan, “Duterte gov’t took advantage of pandemic to continue drug killings, abuses – HRW (13 January 2021), https://www.rappler.com/nation/duterte-government-took-advantage-covid-19-pandemic-continue-drug-war-killings-abuses-hrw-report-2020.

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