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On March 13, 2018, the Philippines withdrew its membership from the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC). President Duterte justified the withdrawal by accusing the ICC and the United Nations of "crusading" against him and condemning the UN's "baseless, unprecedented and outrageous attacks" on him and his administration. [27]
The ICC has publicly indicted 67 people. Proceedings against 34 are ongoing: 30 are at large as fugitives and four are on trial. Proceedings against 33 have been completed: three are serving sentences, seven have finished sentences, four have been acquitted, seven have had the charges against them dismissed, four have had the charges against them withdrawn, and eight have died before the ...
The United Nations received the official notification of withdrawal on March 17, 2018; [42] one year later (March 17, 2019), by rule, the Philippines' withdrawal became official. The legal validity of the withdrawal was challenged at the Supreme Court of the Philippines , [ 19 ] was dismissed in a unanimous decision for being "moot and academic ...
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A Supreme Court (SC) ruling in March 2021 dismissed three petitions filed by the Philippine Coalition for the ICC, the Integrated Bar of the Philippines, and opposition senators challenging Duterte's withdrawal from the ICC on the grounds that the petitioners were unable to establish legal standing to challenge the action. The SC also ruled ...
While the PRC is not a party to the Rome Statute, and therefore does not accept the ICC's jurisdiction, the ETGIE and ETNAM cited a ruling in the case against Myanmar (also not party to the Rome Statute) for its treatment of the Rohingya which allowed the ICC's jurisdiction because part of the crime occurred within the territory of a state ...
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On March 17, the country formally withdrew from the ICC after the country's withdrawal notification was received by the Secretary-General of the United Nations the previous year. [190] The Republic of the Philippines announced its withdrawal from the Court on March 17, 2019.