(21 Sep 2025)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Manila – 21 September 2025
1. Various of protesters and police near presidential palace
2. Various of police clashing with protesters
3. Man being detained by police
4. Police deploying water cannon
STORYLINE:
Thousands of protesters in the Philippine capital expressed their outrage over a corruption scandal faced off with police on Sunday in tense scenes.
The scandal involves lawmakers, officials and businesspeople who allegedly pocketed huge kickbacks from flood-control projects in the poverty-stricken and storm-prone Southeast Asian country.
Police forces and troops had been put on alert to prevent any outbreak of violence.
Thousands of police officers were deployed to secure separate protests in a historic Manila park and near a democracy monument along the main EDSA highway, also in the capital region, where organizers hoped to draw one of the largest turnouts of anti-corruption protesters in the country in recent years.
The United States and Australian embassies issued travel advisories asking their citizens to stay away from the protests as a safety precaution.
Organizers said protesters would focus on denouncing corrupt public works officials, legislators and owners of construction companies, along with a system that allows large-scale corruption, but they would not call on President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. to step down.
Marcos first highlighted the flood-control corruption scandal in July in his annual state-of-the-nation speech.
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