Marking her second year in unjust detention, Senator Leila M. de Lima released her second book of dispatches, a collection of her personal reflections and policy statements on national issues.
“Very soon after my arrest, I started writing. Thoughts, reactions, personal reflections, calls to action to my fellow Filipinos, rallying cries for my fellow defenders of human rights and democracy and, hopefully, humble beacons of hope and inspiration for those (who are) suffering oppression or are otherwise in need of it—writings that eventually became known as ‘Dispatches from Crame,’” she wrote in the Preface.