A YouTube video claims that the International Criminal Court has arraigned and ordered the imprisonment of Sen. Alan Peter Cayetano. This is not true. The ICC has not received any complaint nor has it issued an arrest order against the lawmaker.
Uploaded on July 12, the video’s headline read:
“NAYANIG ANG SENADO! NAIYAK SI CAYETANO! BINASAHAN NA NG ICC! KULONG ANG HATUL! KAPAPASOK LANG!
(The Senate was shocked! Cayetano cried! Arraigned by the ICC! Imprisonment is the verdict! Just in)!”
There is no official announcement from the ICC that a complaint was filed against Cayetano to serve as basis for any arraignment. Nor did the tribunal issue any decision to put the senator behind bars.
The video emerged after Cayetano filed a Senate resolution on July 10 calling for the interim release of former president Rodrigo Duterte from ICC custody on humanitarian grounds.
Cayetano, who served as Duterte’s foreign secretary from 2017 to 2018, urged the government to discuss with the ICC a house arrest setup for Duterte within the premises of the Philippine Embassy in The Hague.
The video did not show proof to support its claim. It merely played a clip of a Malacañang briefing where Palace press officer Claire Castro reacted to Cayetano’s resolution.
Uploaded by YouTube channel BOSS BALITA TV, the video has so far received 65,232 interactions.
