President Duterte has ruled out any chance of facing trial abroad over the controversial war on illegal drugs. President Rodrigo Duterte delivers a televised address to the nation from Davao City on June 21, 2021 (Malacañang) The President launched a profanity-laced tirade against the...
The chief of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) said on Sunday, June 20, that the agency is amenable to any probe pertaining to the country’s enforcement of the anti-illegal drug campaign amid insinuations that it was tainted with extra-judicial killings and other forms of human rights...
The wheels of justice in the country "are in motion" and local remedies "are working" when it comes to investigating claims of human rights abuses in the all-out war against illegal drugs launched by President Duterte in 2016. PNP Chief General Guillermo Eleazar (File photo/ MANILA BULLETIN) This...
Senator Risa Hontiveros is calling for Senate inquiry on the “unabated” killings during police operations, particularly the deaths of children and teenagers. Senator Risa Hontiveros (Senate PRIB) The opposition senator issued the appeal Friday, June 18, following the death of another teenager,...
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...
Archdiocese of Manila Apostolic Administrator Bishop Broderick Pabillo welcomed the international criminal court’s investigation into the Philippine government’s deadly war on drugs saying it’s a step to stop the "culture of impunity" in the country. Bishop Broderick Pabillo (CBCP NEWS / FILE...
Malacañang rejected suggestions that crimes against humanity were committed in the course of President Duterte's bloody drug war, saying they were merely "collateral damage." Presidential spokesperson Harry Roque (OPS / FILE PHOTO / MANILA BULLETIN) Presidential Spokesman Harry Roque made the...
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...
Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon on Wednesday expressed the belief that President Duterte’s legal advisers are now at a crossroads over his refusal to face the International Criminal Court (ICC) over allegations of crimes against humanity in connection to his administration’s war on...
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...
Lawyer Neri Colmenares believes that the case filed against President Duterte before the International Criminal Court (ICC) is strong enough to convict him for human rights violations over his administration’s bloody war on drugs. In an interview on Teleradyo, Colmenares assured that they...
