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The jurisdiction of the ICC investigation in the Philippines will be limited to the period when the country was a state party to the Rome Statute, between November 1, 2011, and March 16, 2019, encompassing almost three years of Duterte's presidency, during which the Philippine drug war was at its height.
The International Criminal Court (ICC) chief prosecutor Fatou Bensouda expressed concern over the drug-related killings in the country on October 13, 2016. [58] In her statement, Bensouda said that the high officials of the country "seem to condone such killings and further seem to encourage State forces and civilians alike to continue targeting these individuals with lethal force."
But it was too late to stop a probe the ICC had started in 2016 that was looking into Duterte’s “war on drugs,” a bloody anti-illegal-narcotics campaign defined by mass extrajudicial ...
Duterte is limited to only a single six-year term as president and thus was ineligible to participate. [245] Bongbong Marcos was elected as Duterte's successor with the latter stepping down from his position on June 30, 2022. [246] Duterte also said he would still pursue his war on drugs even as a civilian after the end of his presidency. [247]
Duterte had pointed at former police officers present at a Senate inquiry into his deadly "war on drugs" on Monday as leaders of that death squad, the existence of which the former president and ...
A Philippine court has dropped drugs charges against one of the most vocal critics of former President Rodrigo Duterte’s bloody “war on drugs,” ending a long legal battle that had seen the ...
In 2009, Duterte said: "If you are doing an illegal activity in my city, if you are a criminal or part of a syndicate that preys on the innocent people of the city, for as long as I am the mayor, you are a legitimate target of assassination." [3] Duterte then responded to a reported arrest and subsequent release of a notorious drug lord in Manila.
The former Philippine senator was jailed for nearly seven years after speaking out against then-President Rodrigo Duterte’s drug war. Now out on bail, she’s still seeking justice.