The International Criminal Court (ICC) has clarified that its decision to suspend temporarily its investigation into the government’s controversial drug war does not have “blanket or general effect” on the probe.
Describing as “paper-thin” the government’s claim that it is investigating alleged crimes against humanity related to the Duterte administration’s war on drugs, two lawyers’ groups urged the International Criminal Court (ICC) to allow the office of Prosecutor Karim Khan to continue with its probe.
Sa kanyang paglabas sa Talk to the People noong Okt. 4, ipinahiwatig ni Pangulong Rodrigo Duterte na sinimulan na niyang pag-aralan ang kanyang kinabukasan sa labas ng Malacanang.
In his Talk to the People appearance on Oct. 4, President Rodrigo Duterte said he "will prepare for (his) defense" in the impending investigation by the International Criminal Court (ICC) on human rights abuses associated with his campaign against illegal drugs.
Top Malacañang officials blasted the International Criminal Court (ICC) for violating the country’s “sovereignty” after it greenlighted the launch of a full-blown investigation into President Rodrigo Duterte’s controversial “war on drugs.”
The International Criminal Court (ICC) will proceed with the full-blown investigation into the alleged crimes against humanity committed by President Rodrigo Duterte in his war on drugs.
Tatlong maling impormasyon ang inilahad ni Pangulong Rodrigo Duterte at ang kanyang chief legal counsel Salvador Panelo tungkol sa International Criminal Court (ICC) sa isang naka-record na pampublikong address noong Hulyo 28.
President Rodrigo Duterte and his chief legal counsel Salvador Panelo made three inaccurate claims about the International Criminal Court (ICC) in a recorded public address on July 28.
Apart from unmasking the existence of the Davao Death Squad, self-confessed hitman Edgar Matobato had also introduced the name of Arturo Lascañas. In the private interview he gave after Rodrigo Duterte had won the presidency in 2016, when he was no longer in the Department of Justice’s Witness Protection Program, Matobato described the dominance that Lascañas had enjoyed in the DDS hierarchy.
There was an element of surprise in the June 14 announcement of former International Criminal Court prosecutor Fatou Bensouda. In her request for authorization for an investigation on Rodrigo Duterte, a scope was added. It had been understood that this was a complaint for crimes against humanity of murder committed in the context of the war on drugs, therefore beginning with the Duterte presidency on July 1, 2016.
