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(Eagle News)—The Palace on Saturday, March 23, said that while it was the right of former Foreign Affairs Secretary Albert del Rosario and former Ombudsman Conchita Carpio Morales to file it, the filing of a communication against China’s Xi Jinping before the International Criminal Court may be a “futile exercise.” In a statement, Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said this was because in the first place, China was not a member of the ICC and as […]
(Eagle News) — The communication filed by two former high-ranking government officials against Chinese President Xi Jinping before the International Criminal Court will not affect Philippine-China relations. This is according to President Rodrigo Duterte, who spoke to reporters on Thursday, March 21. “No, I’m sure it won’t,” Duterte said when asked. According to Duterte, while the Philippines was a “democratic country and anybody can bring a suit against anybody,” whether or not it “would prosper […]
(Eagle News)—Former Foreign Affairs Secretary Albert del Rosario and former Ombudsman Conchita Carpio Morales have filed a communication against Chinese President Xi Jinping before the International Criminal Court. The communication— filed on March 15, two days before the Philippines’ official withdrawal from the ICC—was for his alleged crimes against humanity in connection with China’s expansive claims in the West Philippine Sea. Del Rosario has been a vocal critic of President Rodrigo Duterte’s stance in the […]
(Eagle News)—Despite the Philippines’ official withdrawal from the International Criminal Court, the tribunal’s probe of the situation in the country will continue. This is according to prosecutor Bensou Fatuoda, who made the announcement in the tribunal Twitter account a day after the Philippines’ exit became official. “My Office’s independent and impartial preliminary examination into the situation in the Philippines continues,” she said. The preliminary examination stems from the two communications filed by critics, led by […]
(Eagle News)–The Palace on Monday, March 18, said the Philippine government would deny International Criminal Court investigators entry into the country should they decide to pursue their probe into the drug war. Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said it was either it denied their visas or deported them if they were already in the country on tourist visas. “The Immigration officials have the discretion to deny you entry if they feel na ang gagawin mo rito […]
(Eagle News)–The Palace on Monday, March 18, dismissed as “baseless” and “amusing” the criticisms against the Philippines withdrawal from the International Criminal Court. “We find amusing the myriad of misleading and baseless response to the supposed withdrawal of the Philippines from the Rome Statute which created the (ICC), ranging from Amnesty International’s remarks that the action is a ‘futile attempt to evade international justice’ to party-list Gabriela’s statement that the move could ‘sound off a […]
(Eagle News)–The Palace on Sunday, March 17, defended the Philippines’ withdrawal from the International Criminal Court, saying from the country’s perspective, the tribunal was “non-existent.” “The Philippines cannot leave that which has never joined in the first place. Our position on the matter remains clear, unequivocal and inflexible: The Philippines never became a State Party to the Rome Statute which created the ICC,” Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said in a statement on the day the […]
The Philippines officially quit the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Sunday, March 17, though the beleaguered tribunal has pledged to pursue its examination of possible crimes in the government’s deadly drug war. Manila’s withdrawal becomes final a year after it told the United Nations that it was quitting the world’s only permanent war crimes tribunal, the second nation to do so. “The Secretary-General…informed all concerned states that the withdrawal will take effect for the Philippines on […]
(Eagle News)—The Palace on Monday, March 11, said the International Criminal Court would be violating its own rules if it decides to conduct a full-blown investigation into the administration’s drug war. According to Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo, in the first place, under the law, the ICC “can proceed only when there is a preliminary investigation prior to the withdrawal” of the Philippines from the court. The Philippines’ withdrawal takes effect on March 17. Panelo said […]
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AFP) — Malaysia has become a member of the International Criminal Court, a minister said Tuesday, in a boost for the beleaguered institution at a time it faces growing criticism. The ICC is the world’s only permanent war crimes court and aims to prosecute the worst abuses when national courts are unable or unwilling. But the tribunal in The Hague has come under fire over high-profile acquittals, while Burundi became the […]
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AFP) — The International Criminal Court on Tuesday acquitted former Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo over post-electoral violence in the West African nation in a stunning blow to the war crimes tribunal in The Hague. Judges ordered the immediate release of the 73-year-old deposed strongman, the first head of state to stand trial at the troubled ICC, and his right-hand man Charles Ble Goude. The pair hugged each other after the […]
(Eagle News) – The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Fatou Bensourda, said that her office will continue to conduct its examination of the situation in the Philippines, even if the country had already initiated action to withdraw from the Rome Statute. In her annual report on preliminary examination activities for year 2018, the Philippines was listed as among the countries in which the ICC had opened preliminary examinations. The report covers the period […]
