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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 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."
In the same year, Leonardo would be tagged as one of the suspects in the International Criminal Court's (ICC) investigation on Duterte's war on drugs campaign. [6] [7] His last role in the PNP was being chief of the CIDG for the Davao region, retiring from police duty on September 29, 2020. [8]
In March 2018, a month after the ICC launched a preliminary inquiry into the Philippines’ drug war, in a 15-page-statement, Duterte expressed outrage and unilaterally announced the country’s ...
The Philippines was formerly a signatory to the ICC but Duterte canceled the country’s membership after the court began probing his drug war. But under the ICC’s withdrawal mechanism, the ...
Philippine former President Rodrigo Duterte addresses supporters at a rally in Davao, Jan. 28, 2024. ... The issue over the ICC is just one of several flashpoints that have come between the ...
The International Criminal Court (ICC) is an intergovernmental organization and international tribunal seated in The Hague, Netherlands.It is the first and only permanent international court with jurisdiction to prosecute individuals for the international crimes of genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and the crime of aggression.
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 ...