Illness Claims Delay Arrests of High-Profile Philippine Officials
A pattern has emerged in the Philippines where high-profile officials facing arrest warrants, often for corruption charges, are hospitalized citing illness just before their detention. At least eight government officials in the past two decades have invoked medical conditions to delay or avoid arrest and detention.
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