(WATCH)De Lima says SC petition meant to exorcise 'my demon'

Senator Leila de lima failed to mince words on Monday once she took President Rodrigo Duterte to the Supreme Court over his personal tirades that allegedly desecrated her privacy, liberty and security. At a news conference, de lima aforementioned Duterte tried to strip her of dignity and humanity as revenge against her stance on his supposed links to illegal killings. Duterte's grudge against de lima dates back to the time once she, as chair of the Commission on Human Rights, probed the previous Davao town politician for his alleged links to the volunteer cluster Davao hit squad. The attacks escalated once she, when obtaining nonappointive as a legislator within the could 2016 elections, needed a Senate probe on Duterte's bloody war on medication with the President inculpative her of receiving drug cash to fund her election campaign through the assistance of her former driver, alleged lover and bagman Ronnie Dayan. She has denied the allegations, that square measure the topic of complaints unfinished before the Department of Justice, that she accustomed head.

 "You call me a slut, a woman of the world. Yes, I am a woman. I am a strong woman who will not allow an insecure man to destroy her," De Lima said in a speech.

"I have nothing to apologize for, or feel ashamed of because I have killed no one and I have not engaged in, or benefited from, any illegal activity. I have not made other people suffer out of personal grievance or malice," she added.
De Lima said she filed the petition for writ of habeas data before the SC to "exorcise my demon," obviously referring to Duterte.
"First, I am here to exorcise my demon. He wears a crown and sits on a throne now, but that should not shield him from being held responsible for launching a personal vendetta against one of his own citizens, just to vindicate perceived personal slights his manhood suffered seven years ago. His lofty position should not be used to perpetuate his personal evil designs against one woman," she said.
"Ang paglapit ko sa Korte Suprema ang paraan ko para iwaksi ang demonyong pilit ginagawang bangungot ang buhay ko."
De Lima said she will continue fighting for her innocence, knowing she will be vindicated in the end.
"I always believe na andyan naman ang Diyos. Hindi natutulog ang Diyos. The vindication may not happen now, in the next few months, in the next few years especially that this President is still in power but time will come na lalabas ang katotohanan. Whether or not nasa kulungan na ako by that time I'm sure vindication will come," she said.

In her petition, de Lima cited many specific occasions wherever Duterte has repeatedly subjected her to crude personal verbal attacks, that allegedly concerned the wrongful and unlawful assortment and publication of her alleged personal affairs.

“These verbal attacks and threats leveled against me are not covered by presidential immunity from suit because they are not the official acts of a President.  They constitute unlawful, unofficial conduct that have nothing to do with his duties,” the petition read.

She asked the SC to prevent the President and his men from gathering personal data concerning her personal life and for the alleged illegally-obtained items of personal data be deleted, destroyed, or corrected.

De lima argued these personal verbal attacks and threats profaned Republic Acts 6713 and 9710, conjointly referred to as the Code of Conduct and moral Standards for Public officers and workers and royal charter of girls, severally.

She aforesaid Duterte couldn't invoke legal immunity from suit to counter her petition as a result of they're not the official acts of a President.