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THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AFP) — Former Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo will Monday ask the International Criminal Court to acquit him of crimes against humanity and free him after seven years in detention. Gbagbo, 73, is the first-ever head of state to be handed over to the Hague-based ICC, where he has been on trial since 2016. He faces four counts of crimes against humanity for his role in fomenting a wave of post-electoral […]
(Eagle News) — Senator Antonio Trillanes IV on Friday, Sept. 28, urged the International Criminal Court to expedite its investigation into the two communication reports filed by President Rodrigo Duterte’s critics against him in connection with the drug war. Trillanes made the statement after Duterte made a statement that the senator said was tantamount to the chief executive admitting he had a hand in the so-called extrajudicial killings in the country. The Palace has denied […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte on Thursday, Sept. 20, said a US official’s attack on the International Criminal Court was “quite refreshing.” Duterte, who himself criticized the body, was referring to the pronouncements of US National Security Adviser John Bolton, who declared the ICC “dead to America and “illegitimate,” and described it as “ineffective, unaccountable, and indeed outright dangerous.” Bolton made the statements as the ICC was preparing to probe what it said was detainee […]
by Jan Hennop Agence France Presse THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AFP) — The International Criminal Court on Tuesday said its work would continue “undeterred” after Washington threatened to prosecute its judges if Americans are charged with war crimes committed in Afghanistan. France and Germany also weighed in to support the Hague-based court after White House National Security Advisor John Bolton said the ICC was “already dead to us”. “The ICC, as a court of law, […]
(Eagle News) – It is the not only Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte who is vocal in the opposition and criticism of the International Criminal Court, as the United States on Monday, Sept. 10, issued its strongest criticism and opposition to investigations by the Hague-based international court. White House National Security Advisor John Bolton called the ICC “outright dangerous” and even threated to ban, prosecute and arrest judges and officials of the ICC who would enter the […]
by Jan Hennop Agence France Presse THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AFP) — The International Criminal Court said Thursday it had jurisdiction to probe the forced deportation of Rohingya Muslims by Myanmar’s military as a possible crime against humanity. Some 700,000 people from the stateless Muslim minority have fled Myanmar’s northern Rakhine state into neighbouring Bangladesh since August last year to escape a bloody military crackdown. The ICC’s “pre-trial chamber… decided by majority the court may exercise […]
(Eagle News) — Former Akbayan party-list Rep. Barry Gutierrez will represent the opposition senators who filed a petition against the Philippines’ planned withdrawal from the International Criminal Court before the Supreme Court. Gutierrez formally entered his appearance as counsel for Senators Kiko Pangilinan, Bam Aquino, Leila de Lima, Risa Hontiveros and Antonio Trillanes IV after the High Court denied De Lima’s appeal she be allowed to represent herself and her co-petitioners in the oral arguments […]
(Eagle News)—-The Supreme Court is holding today, Tuesday, Aug. 28, oral arguments on the Philippines’ planned withdrawal from the International Criminal Court. Two petitions against the planned withdrawal were filed separately—one by opposition senators Kiko Pangilinan, Franklin Drilon, Bam Aquino, Leila de Lima, Risa Hontiveros and Antonio Trillanes IV; and the other by the Philippine Coalition for the International Criminal Court led by former Commission on Human Rights chair Etta Rosales. Earlier, the SC denied […]
Palace unfazed; says the communication “does not mean anything” (Eagle News) — Relatives of drug suspects killed in police operations have filed a communication against President Rodrigo Duterte before the International Criminal Court. In filing the communication before the ICC on Tuesday, Aug. 28, Rise Up for Life and Rights, which includes critics of Duterte’s drug war, said the President violated Article 7 of the Rome Statute for “widespread and systematic attacks in the form […]
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AFP) — International judges will hear closing arguments Tuesday in the case against former Congolese warlord Bosco Ntaganda, accused of war crimes including using child soldiers and sex slaves in his rebel army. Once known as “The Terminator”, Ntaganda faces 13 counts of war crimes and five counts of crimes against humanity for his role in a brutal civil conflict in the DR Congo’s volatile east more than 15 years ago. The […]
(Eagle News) — The Supreme Court has denied detained Senator Leila de Lima’s appeal she be allowed to personally represent herself in oral arguments on the petition she and several others filed against the Philippines’ planned withdrawal from the International Criminal Court. In denying De Lima’s appeal, the SC en banc, voting 10-2, said her motion for reconsideration presented no new argument that warrants a reversal of the High Court’s earlier decision. In its earlier […]
(Eagle News) — The Supreme Court has reset anew oral arguments on the petition against the Philippines’ announced withdrawal from the International Criminal Court. Instead of Aug. 14, they will be held on Aug. 28, the SC Public Information Office said. The SC said it would release a resolution on the same on Tuesday, Aug. 14. The postponement comes after the SC junked a petition filed by opposition senators for detained Senator Leila de Lima […]
