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The UN human rights chief said Friday that Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, who has launched profanity-laced diatribes against United Nations rapporteurs, needs "psychiatric evaluation". Listing some of Manila's actions against UN envoys, including filing terrorism charges against one, rights chief Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein said "it makes one believe that the president of the Philippines needs to submit himself to some sort of psychiatric evaluation".
Zeid and other UN rights officials have focused significant attention on Duterte's controversial drug war. Police have killed more than 4,100 drug suspects since Duterte took office in 2016, but rights groups allege more than 8,000 others have been murdered in what they describe as crimes against humanity. The UN special rapporteur on extra-judicial killings, Agnes Callamard, has become a particular Duterte target over her criticism of his campaign to stamp out illegal drugs. Earlier this month, Duterte vowed he would never cooperate with UN investigators looking into extrajudicial killings.
"When the human rights or whoever is that rapporteur arrives, my order to you is, do not answer ... "You're investigating us, fact finding? Well sorry, do not fuck with me," the president said, referring to Callamard. Speaking to reporters on Friday, Zeid said it was "absolutely disgraceful that the president of a country could speak in this way, using the foulest of language against a rapporteur that is highly respected." Manila hit back against Zeid's suggestion that the president may be mentally unwell, calling his remarks an "unmeasured outburst."

Copyright Agence France-Presse, 2018

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