Supporters of embattled Senator Leila de Lima will mark Human Rights Day on Thursday, December 10, with an online film screening titled “CinemaLeila 2020.”

Spearheaded by the Free Leila de Lima Movement, the screening will feature select short films and documentaries about human rights issues in the Philippines.

The line up includes the following titles:

• Bad Elements
• Miss You ‘Nay
• Hayop
• I Believe
• Marapat Lang
• Counter Terror
• Paranoia of the Guilty
• Dakilang Pagbabago 2020
• Sober
• Titser Gennie
• Selda
• Sino si Reina Mae Nasino?
• PKNP (Pambili ng Karapatang Pantao)
• Pawns
• Ili Ili, Tulog Anay

These and other films and documentaries will be streamed on the Facebook page of the Free Leila de Lima Movement and, on De Lima’s official Facebook page.

There will be screenings on Wednesday, December 9 – Human Rights Defenders Day – from 7:30 pm to 9 pm, and on Thursday, December 10, also from 7:30 pm to 9 pm.

Other organizers are the Human Rights and People Empowerment Center, and De Lima’s office.

De Lima has been detained at the PNP Custodial Center in Camp Crame, Quezon City, since early 2017, for illegal drug cases filed against her by the Duterte government. She insists that she is innocent of those charges.

Many local and international groups have called for De Lima’s release, saying her cases are a form of political persecution for her investigation of the Duterte administration’s war on drugs and extrajudicial killings. – Rappler.com