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A video has been viewed tens of thousands of times in multiple Facebook, YouTube and Twitter posts that claim it shows jailed Philippine Senator Leila De Lima attending a party in prison in 2020. The claim is false; the video has circulated online since 2015 in reports about a birthday party that was held for De Lima, 18 months before she was detained on drug trafficking charges. The 18-second footage show De Lima signing at a party. It has been viewed more than 25,000 times and shared more than 960 times after it was posted on Facebook here on September 30, 2020. The post’s caption reads: Former DOJ Sec De Lima with her friends and Herbert Colanggo @ Ampang inside Bilibid. A text overlay on the video reads: Sen Leila De Lima / September 29, 2020. A screenshot of the misleading post, taken on October 13, 2020 De Lima, who formerly served as secretary of the Philippine Department of Justice, was imprisoned in 2017 . She was arrested and detained on February 24, 2017 on drug trafficking charges after turning herself in at the Philippine Senate. Herbert Colanggo is a major Philippine crime figure who was jailed in the Bilibid prison during a 2014 raid that revealed inmates were living in luxury, as AFP reported here . The same video was also shared alongside a similar claim here and here on Facebook; here on YouTube; and here on Twitter. The claim is false. Keyword searches found the footage corresponds to the 38-second to 55-second mark of this video published on the YouTube channel for Philippine broadcaster ABS-CBN on August 27, 2015. It was published almost 18 months before De Lima was detained. The video was posted by local news organisation ABS-CBN and is captioned: (Original Filipino music) icon Imelda Papin on Thursday challenged Justice Secretary Leila de Lima to sing a few lines from her song ‘Bakit’ during the latter's 56th birthday celebration. De Lima then gamely belted out the chorus of Papin's song. Below is a screenshot comparison of the video in the misleading posts (L) and the longer ABS-CBN video (R): Screenshot comparison The footage also circulated in 2016 alongside a false claim that one of the individuals in the video is Colanggo. Multiple Philippine news organisations, for example ABS-CBN here and Inquirer here , reported on the video in 2016 with the correct context, specifically noting that it shows a member of Congress -- not Colanggo. The Philippine Senate also denied that the viral footage shows De Lima with Colanggo in this statement released on July 17, 2016.
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