FACT CHECK: Video uses GMA clip to MISLEAD that VP Sara plans to go into hiding
A viral video claiming VP Sara Duterte is "starting to hide" like Bato Dela Rosa is misleading. Last Feb. 18, she launched her presidential bid in the 2028 elections.
Tag Archives: Rodrigo Duterte
Day 1 of confirmation of charges hearing: Butuyan warns of return of Duterte impunity if ICC won’t confirm charges
Joel Butuyan: Truth is the antidote to the virus of impunity, Your Honors. The victims dread a future where charges are not confirmed. It will mean that the virus of impunity will continue to spread and infect many more.
FACT CHECK: No early release for Duterte from ICC after 2024 SC ruling
A YouTube video is claiming that former president Rodrigo Duterte will be released early from detention under the International Criminal Court after the Supreme Court dismissed a case against him. This is false.
The Duterte drama at The Hague: Too weak to stand, but strong enough to snub
Is Duterte too frail to remember, or simply too defiant to face the music? Even his own prosecutor has described him as an “unreliable historian” of his health. He adjusts the story as needed. The “sickly” act is a shield , one that spares him the gaze of mothers and children who lost loved ones in the drug war, some of whom have traveled to The Hague seeking justice. By remaining in his cell, he preserves the tough-guy image for supporters back home.
ICC judge to Duterte’s counsel: Focus on substance, not theatrics
Presiding Judge Iulia Antonella Motoc to Nicholas Kaufman: The Chamber, therefore, urges the Defence to place substance over stylistic and theatrical formulation.
Confirmation hearings to proceed even without Duterte in court, ICC experts say
Update Feb. 20, 2026: ICC Pre-Trial Chamber 1 allows Duterte to skip confirmation hearings next week.“The Chamber, while acknowledging the objections of the Prosecution and the CLRV, considers that, in the present circumstances of the case, it is appropriate to proceed with the hearing on the confirmation of charges in the absence of Mr Duterte.”
Vitaliano Aguirre’s art of comfortably lying
As secretary of Justice, Aguirre announced that “The criminals, the drug lords, drug pushers, they are not humanity. They are not humanity.”
In English, please
Request from a Duterte loyalist: “Hi Alvin! Is it possible for you to paraphrase the statement of Atty. Kaufman so ordinary people, like me, can understand it better? You may show him the simpler/paraphrased form before you post it for us. Thanks in advance! More power to you and to the Defence Team of FPRRD!”
FACT CHECK: ICC hearings have YET to start; Duterte NOT ‘free’
Several Facebook posts claim that the International Criminal Court has cleared former president Rodrigo Duterte of his charges and allowed him to go home. This is false.
FACT CHECK: Tulfo did NOT slam Duterte as ‘root of a rotten system’
Multiple quote cards attributed to Sen. Raffy Tulfo are circulating online, supposedly blaming former president Rodrigo Duterte as the root of the country’s “rotten system.” This is fake.
