FACT CHECK: Phoenix Wright a fictional attorney, NOT Duterte’s new counsel
A Facebook page posted a graphic announcing a fake and fictional new defense attorney for former president Rodrigo Duterte.
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A Facebook page posted a graphic announcing a fake and fictional new defense attorney for former president Rodrigo Duterte.
Multiple posts are claiming that Philippine Ambassador to the United Kingdom Teodoro Locsin testified at the International Criminal Court regarding the case of former president Rodrigo Duterte. This is false.
The International Criminal Court told VERA Files that the "receipt" circulating online is not a legitimate document.
A graphic supposedly showing "Global Defense Agency Director Cecil Stedman" calling on the International Criminal Court to release former president Rodrigo Duterte is circulating online. This is fake. Cecil Stedman is a fictional character in a comic series.
Viral posts circulating online are claiming that "Italian president" Joaquin Archivaldo Guzmán Loera submitted a petition to the ICC over the rejected appeal of former president Rodrigo Duterte. This is satire.
In a decision dated April 24, a day after all charges against Duterte were confirmed, the ICC Presidency appointed British Judge Joanna Korner, South Korean Judge Keebong Paek, and French Judge Nicolas Guillou to the chamber.
The Pre-Trial Chamber 1 of the International Criminal Court “unanimously confirmed” Thursday all charges of crimes against humanity against former president Rodrigo Duterte, a decision that commits the 81-year-old former leader to a full trial in The Hague.
The ICC’s Appeals Chamber, composed of five judges, affirmed by majority vote the Oct. 23 decision of its Pre-Trial Chamber I that the court has legal power over drug war killings committed when the Philippines was still a member of the Rome Statute, the treaty that established the ICC.
Former president Rodrigo Duterte has asked the International Criminal Court's Appeals Chamber to excuse him from attending the reading of the judgment on his appeal challenging the tribunal's jurisdiction.
In DDS hitman Edgar Matobato’s testimony submitted to the ICC, he narrated a killing at Deca Homes: So Paolo called us, Major Lao, Major Francia to go to Deca Homes. We entered the home of the victim. Paolo ordered us to kill them.