The camp of former president Rodrigo Duterte is seeking the disqualification of two judges of the International Criminal Court (ICC) Pre-Trial Chamber I (PTC I) for having already supposedly decided on the issue of jurisdiction on the former chief executive’s case. Former president Rodrigo...
The Pre-Trial Chamber I of the International Criminal Court (ICC) ordered the prosecution to comment on the challenge raised by former president Rodrigo Duterte’s defense team regarding the court’s jurisdiction over his case. Former president Rodrigo Duterte (ICC...
The Pre-Trial Chamber I of the International Criminal Court (ICC) dismissed the appeal of former president Rodrigo Duterte’s defense team to excuse two judges from ruling on the jurisdiction issue of his case. Former president Rodrigo Duterte in the custody of the International Criminal Court in...
Lawyer Nicholas Kaufman, former president’s Rodrigo Duterte’s lead counsel in the International Criminal Court (ICC), denied that his team requested to restrict the participation of drug war victims in the ICC proceedings by pushing for stringent identification documents. Former president...
The Pre-Trial Chamber I of the International Criminal Court (ICC) rejected former president Rodrigo Duterte’s defense team’s proposal to limit the acceptable identity documents for relatives of the victims of the drug war, and instead will allow various types of government IDs for their...
A pre-trial chamber of the International Criminal Court (ICC) has ruled that it would accept various types of government IDs for the relatives of the drug war victims who seek to participate in the proceedings against former president Rodrigo Duterte, who is facing charges of crimes against...
The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, where former president Rodrigo Duterte is currently detained for crimes against humanity of murder, will present two witnesses, 8,565 pages of written evidence, nine photographs, and almost 16 hours of audio-visual files for the...
Former president Rodrigo Duterte’s common-law wife, Honeylet Avanceña, has appealed for consideration for the detained 80-year-old former chief executive, who is currently detained in the Scheveningen Prison in The Hague, Netherlands. Supporters of former president Rodrigo Duterte hold a prayer...
Another show cause order has once again been issued by the Commission on Elections (Comelec), this time, against a poll candidate who made racist remarks. Pasay City mayoral candidate Editha "Wowee" Manguera (Photo from Yorme Wowee Manguerra Facebook page) Comelec's Task Force on Safeguarding...
It’s been one month since former president Rodrigo Duterte was arrested and brought to The Hague in the Netherlands to face the crimes against humanity charges before the International Criminal Court (ICC) in connection to his administration’s bloody war on drugs campaign. Former president...
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has issued a show cause order against Nueva Ecija gubernatorial candidate Virgilio Bote to ask him to explain the remarks he made about a supposedly ailing poll bet in the province last April 3. Commission on Elections This show cause order was issued by the...
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) issued another show cause order to Pasig City congressional candidate lawyer Christian "Ian" Sia for a remark he made during a campaign sortie on April 3. (Photo from Christian "Ian" Sia Facebook page) This is Sia's second show cause order from the poll...