With the confirmation of charges hearing for former president Rodrigo Duterte set two weeks from now, his defense team said that it is ready to present its counter-evidence before the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) Pre-Trial Chamber I. In a document dated Sept. 2, lead counsel Nicholas...
Victims in the International Criminal Court (ICC) proceedings against former president Rodrigo Duterte have urged judges to keep him in detention, warning that his release could endanger their safety and undermine the trial. In a redacted public filing submitted by the Office of Public Counsel for...
The International Criminal Court’s (ICC) detention unit has barred the visitors of former president Rodrigo Duterte from providing the public updates about the situation inside the facility. Vice President Sara Duterte said on Monday, Sept. 1, that she’s now only allowed to confirm that her...
The confirmation of charges hearing for former president Rodrigo Duterte’s crimes against humanity charges at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, Netherlands will run for four days—from Sept. 23 to 26. Information found on the ICC’s website showed that the former chief...
The four Duterte siblings—Sara, Paolo, Sebastian, and Veronica—have visited their farther, former president Rodrigo Duterte, in the detention facility in The Hague, Netherlands after an earlier request from the Duterte patriarch to see his children together. This was confirmed by Vice...
Malacañang has yet to receive any request from the camp of former president Rodrigo Duterte which seeks an audience with the Marcos administration to negotiate Duterte 's return to the country. Duterte’s lead counsel Nicholas Kaufman said he wants to speak to the government and the...
With the confirmation of charges hearing on ex-president Rodrigo Duterte’s crimes against humanity charges scheduled for Sept. 23 at the International Criminal Court (ICC), there is much buzz about what can be expected during and after this critical pre-trial phase. Atty. Nicholas Kaufman, the...
Former president Rodrigo Duterte’s lead counsel Nicholas Kaufman is seeking an audience with the Marcos administration to negotiate the return of the ex-chief executive to the Philippines. Kaufman, Duterte’s lawyer in his crimes against humanity charges at the International Criminal Court...
The lead counsel in former president Rodrigo Duterte’s crimes against humanity charges before the International Criminal Court (ICC) is expected to make a “very strong” rebuttal of the evidence to be presented by the prosecution during the Sept. 23. confirmation of charges hearing. ...
The International Criminal Court (ICC) Registry said that it received 303 applications from people who want to be recognized as victims of former president’s Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs. “[T]he VPRS (Victims Participation and Reparations Section) received 303 application forms—a limited...
The defense team of former president Rodrigo Duterte bared its plans for the confirmation of charges hearing set on Sept. 23 in The Hague, Netherlands, which is critical for the progression of the crimes against humanity case against him. In a three-page document uploaded to the International...
The camp of former president Rodrigo Duterte has renewed its request to the International Criminal Court (ICC) to grant him interim release, a month before his scheduled confirmation hearing in The Hague, on Sept. 23. In a heavily redacted motion dated Aug. 19, Duterte’s lawyers, led by Nicholas...
