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(Eagle News) — Former Foreign Affairs Secretary Albert del Rosario was held upon his arrival in Hong Kong on Friday, June 21, Consul-General Antonio Morales said. “Para po siyang ordinary traveler, kaya lang po ang immigration parang nagtatagal. Hindi pa po tinatatakan ang kanyang passport,” Morales said in an interview over radio dzbb. According to Morales, he had written Hong Kong immigration about Rosario’s arrival, and asked it to give him “consideration.” He said Hong […]
MEXICO CITY, Mexico (AFP) — Amnesty International said Tuesday it believes the Venezuelan authorities have committed crimes against humanity in their crackdown on anti-government protests, and urged the International Criminal Court to investigate. The rights group said President Nicolas Maduro’s government responded with “a systematic and widespread policy of repression” in late January, when anti-government protests swept the country after opposition leader Juan Guaido declared himself acting president. Maduro opponents were tortured and killed during […]
(Eagle News)–Most Filipinos agree that the suit filed against Chinese President Xi Jinping before the International Criminal Court sends a message to the world that China should leave the West Philippine Sea, a recent Social Weather Stations survey found. The SWS found the 49 percent who agree to the test statement “The suit filed in the ICC by Albert Del Rosario and Conchita Carpio-Morales, former officials of the PH government, against Chinese Pres. Xi Jinping […]
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AFP) — Judges at the International Criminal Court Friday turned down a request to open a war crimes probe in Afghanistan, a week after Washington revoked the court’s chief prosecutor’s visa over the case. “The judges decided that an investigation into the situation in Afghanistan at this stage would not serve the interests of justice,” the Hague-based court said in a statement. Fatou Bensouda’s US visa was revoked over a possible […]
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AFP) — Malaysia’s government did a U-turn Friday on its decision to join the International Criminal Court, the prime minister said, after a backlash from a powerful Islamic ruler and opposition politicians. The Southeast Asian nation announced in March it was joining the world’s only permanent war crimes tribunal after a reform-minded government came to power last year. But the move sparked an outcry from opposition politicians and the powerful sultan […]
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AFP) — The United States has revoked the visa for the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, her office said Friday, over a possible investigation of American soldiers’ actions in Afghanistan. Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda would continue to pursue her duties for the Hague-based court “without fear or favour” despite the ban, her office said in a statement. The move against Bensouda, a Gambian national, comes weeks after US Secretary of […]
(Eagle News)—The International Criminal Court has begun its preliminary examination of the communication for crimes against humanity filed against President Rodrigo Duterte by the National Union of People’s Lawyers. This as the tribunal based in The Netherlands said in a letter to the NUPL that the communication, which was filed over the drug war, “relates to a situation already under preliminary examination by the Office of the Prosecutor.” The ICC was apparently referring to the […]
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AFP) — The International Criminal Court’s top official has called on the United States to join and support its work after Washington recently stepped up its dispute with the global legal body. ICC president Chile Eboe-Osuji called on the US to “join her closest allies and friends at the table of the Rome Statute”, referring to the court’s founding document. “The past, present and future victims of genocide, crimes against humanity […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte has made it clear to China that the Philippine government had nothing to do with the filing of a communication against Chinese President Xi Jinping before the International Criminal Court. According to a press release from Malacañang, this was what Duterte told Song Tao, head of the International Department of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, during the Chinese official’s courtesy call on the chief executive on Wednesday, […]
(Eagle News)–For the Palace, the late Senator Miriam Defensor Santiago’s election as International Criminal Court judge was void from the start. “If the position is we’ve never been a state party, then logically it is void unless the international court says it is not,” Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said. Asked why Raul Pangalangan, who currently sits as a judge in the tribunal, was never pulled out, Panelo said “we don’t have to pull out anybody […]
(Eagle News) – The government’s top lawyer said that the Philippine government’s withdrawal from the International Criminal Court will have “no effect in our justice system.” In a statement, Solicitor General Jose C. Calida, said that the country’s withdrawal from the Rome Statute does not have any adverse effect on the country’s justice system. “The Philippine justice system functions independently with or without membership in the ICC. Hence, the withdrawal of the Philippines from […]
(Eagle News)–The Philippines’ withdrawal from the International Criminal Court has no effect on the country’s justice system nor on the foreign aid it receives, Solicitor General Jose Calida said on Monday, March 25. According to Calida, the Philippine justice system “functions independently with or without membership in the ICC.” He said the “investigation and prosecution of drug-related deaths, incidents, and/or offenses are ongoing in the country.” In fact, based on official government statistics, he said […]
