Philippines President Rodrsigo Duterte has told a U.N human rights expert who said the country’s judicial independence was under threat to ‘go to hell’, warning against interference in domestic affairs. The UN Special Rapporteur Diego García-Sayán made an academic visit to the Philippines last week and assessed that there was a “worrisome deterioration of the rule of law and that the independence of justice in the Philippines is under attack.” The Philippine Supreme Court voted last month to remove Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno, whom Duterte had called an “enemy” for voting against controversial government proposals, citing violations in the way she was appointed, as well as the extension of martial rule in the volatile southern Philippines.