ICC authorizes full-blown probe into Duterte’s drug war
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.
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.
The International Criminal Court (ICC) has issued the call for families of victims of the Philippine government’s war on drugs (WoD) to submit evidence in connection with the request of the prosecutor for authorization to proceed with an investigation, a recently-retiredICC judge said on Friday.
Sinabi ni Palace Spokesperson Harry Roque na si Jose Maria “Joma” Sison, founding chairperson ng Communist Party of the Philippines, ay kabilang sa mga nagsumite ng komunikasyon sa International Criminal Court (ICC) hinggil sa mga nangyaring pagpatay kaugnay ng giyera laban sa droga ni Pangulong Rodrigo Duterte.
Palace Spokesperson Harry Roque claimed without evidence that Jose Maria “Joma” Sison, founding chairperson of the Communist Party of the Philippines, was among those who submitted a communication to the International Criminal Court (ICC) regarding the killings in President Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs.
Isang araw bago nagretiro si International Criminal Court Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda noong Hunyo 15, inilabas niya sa publiko ang resulta ng preliminary examination na ginawa ng kanyang opisina simula Pebrero 2018 tungkol sa sitwasyon sa Pilipinas kaugnay ng War on Drugs (WoD) sa ilalim ng administrasyon ni Pangulong Duterte at humingi siya ng pahintulot sa ICC Pre-Trial Chamber na ipagpatuloy ang imbestigasyon.
In her request for authorization to proceed with the investigation of the situation in the Philippines, International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda cited her findings that members of the Philippine National Police “have unlawfully killed between several thousand and tens of thousands of civilians” in carrying out the Duterte government’s war on drugs.