CAMP CRAME, Quezon City (The Adobo Chronicles, Quezon City Bureau) – Incarcerated Senator Leila De Lima has been the poster child for political persecution and the fight against dictatorship but has just been relegated to first runner-up by TIME Magazine.
TIME named Rappler CEO Maria Ressa one of this year’s “Persons of the Year,” all but snubbing De Lima.
A bitter De Lima issued this statement from her jail cell: