An internationally recognized rights advocacy group on Thursday, Sept. 16 welcomed the decision of the International Criminal Court (ICC) to allow the Office of the Prosecutor to proceed with formally investigating the alleged crimes committed under the Duterte administration’s controversial war...
The Pre-Trial Chamber of the International Criminal Court (ICC) has granted the request of its prosecutor to begin a probe on the alleged crimes related to extrajudicial killings in the Philippines, including the hundreds of deaths that occurred under the controversial war-on-drugs campaign of the...
Families of victims of the bloody war on drugs (WoD) campaign under the Duterte administration will have until August 13, 2021 to submit before the International Criminal Court (ICC) their “representations” following the recent request made by former Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda for authorization...
Administration ally Senator Francis Tolentino on Thursday, June 17, hit the credibility of International Criminal Court (ICC) chief prosecutor Fatou Bensouda after the latter sought a formal investigation into the alleged murders committed under President Duterte's "war on drugs". Senator Francis...
President Duterte is not at all worried by attempts to put him on trial before the International Criminal Court (ICC) over the alleged killings linked to his war on drugs. President Rodrigo Duterte holds a meeting with the Inter-Agency Task Force on the Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID) core...
The Philippine government is determined to assert the country's sovereignty when it has refused to cooperate with any probe into the war on drugs by the International Criminal Court (ICC). President Rodrigo Duterte (File photo/Malacañang) According to Presidential spokesman Harry Roque, the...
Opposition senators on Tuesday welcomed the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) move to seek full investigation into the killings being linked to the Duterte administration’s drug war as a possible case of “crime against humanity of murder” under the Rome...
The Philippine government is optimistic the International Criminal Court (ICC) will reject a request to conduct a formal probe into the country's war on drugs since such petition was "legally erroneous, political motivated." President Duterte delivers a public address on June 14, 2021 (Malacañang)...
The announcement made by International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda to open an investigation on the bloody war-on-drugs campaign in the country preempts the prerogative of her successor and undercuts the attractiveness of the Rome Statute to States that may be considering...
