Former senator Leila de Lima, shown in file photo, has been in police custody for more than 2,000 days since Feb. 24, 2017. PNA PHOTO
FORMER senator Leila de Lima is a victim of disinformation, probably of the worst kind. It is sanctioned by government, both the past and the present. She was a respected lawyer before then President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo appointed her in 2008 as chairperson of the Commission on Human Rights. But in 2017, then President Rodrigo Duterte called her an "immoral woman" allegedly for having an affair with her driver, Ronnie Dayan, who, in turn, supposedly served as de Lima's alleged collector of drug protection money when she was the Justice secretary in the Aquino 3rd administration.