Australia has defended its most senior intelligence chief after he was pictured posing with a clenched fist alongside Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte.
Rights groups have said the image undermines criticism of Mr Duterte's war on drugs.
Director-General of the Australian Secret Intelligence Service Nick Warner met Mr Duterte in Manila on Tuesday, where he was photographed mirroring Mr Duterte's clenched fist pose.
The president's clenched pose was used throughout his 2016 presidential campaign during which he promised to use deadly force to wipe out crime and drugs.
Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said Mr Warner was complying with a request from Mr Duterte and the image did not weaken Canberra's criticism of Mr Duterte's war on drugs.
Mr Duterte's ferocious 14-month-old war on drugs has seen thousands of Filipinos killed, many in what critics say are suspicious circumstances.
"On both occasions that I've met with President Duterte I've raised the issue of human rights and the extrajudicial killings," Ms Bishop told reporters in Perth.
Amnesty International said Australia must do more to try to curtail the firebrand Philippine leader.
"Australia is sending mixed messages amid an incredible spike in killings of the Philippines poorest people," said Michael Hayworth, a human rights campaigner at Amnesty International.
"Australia must condemn in the strongest terms the killings by Philippines police of people without trial."
Since Mr Duterte took office, more than 3,500 people have been killed in what the Philippine National Police (PNP) says were gunfights with drug suspects who had resisted arrests.
The PNP says about 2,000 more people were killed in other, drug-related violence that it denies involvement in.
Human rights advocates, however, say the death toll could be far higher than police say.
Philippine presidential spokesman Ernesto Abella said the clenched-fist photo reflected the friendly nature of the meeting and the warm relationship between the two countries.
"It was done in a light-hearted manner," Mr Abella told reporters.
