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(Eagle News) — The Supreme Court has denied detained Senator Leila de Lima’s plea she be allowed to “appear and personally represent herself” during oral arguments on the Philippines’ announced withdrawal from the International Criminal Court. Voting 10-2, the SC said it found “no compelling reason” for the senator, who is detained in Camp Crame over drug cases, to make the appearance and argue against the withdrawal. For this, the SC “noted that Senator De […]
(Eagle News) — The Supreme Court has reset anew oral arguments on the consolidated petition challenging the Philippines’ withdrawal from the International Criminal Court. SC spokesperson Theodore Te said the debate on the petition filed by opposition senators Leila De Lima, Francis Pangilinan, Franklin Drilon, Bam Aquino, Risa Hontiveros, and Antonio Trillanes IV, and of the Philippine Coalition for the ICC was now scheduled on Aug. 14 from Aug. 7. They cited as a reason for […]
(Eagle News) — Senator Leila de Lima has asked the Supreme Court for it to allow her to take part in oral arguments for the opposition lawmakers’ petition questioning the Philippines’ planned withdrawal from the Rome Statute. “..This Honorable Court is respectfully asked to take judicial notice of its practice of permitting members of Congress to appear before it and argue their cases,” De Lima, who was among those who filed the petition against the […]
by Jo Biddle © Agence France-Presse THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AFP) — International judges will Friday hand down a verdict in the appeal of disgraced former Congolese vice-president Jean-Pierre Bemba, fighting his conviction for war crimes and an 18-year jail term. Bemba, 55, appealed after judges at the International Criminal Court (ICC) unanimously found him guilty in June 2016 on five charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Central African Republic (CAR). In […]
By Moira Encina Eagle News Service The Supreme Court has set oral arguments for the petition seeking to have the Philippines’ withdrawal from the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court declared as invalid. Oral arguments on the petition for certiorari and mandamus filed by Senators Francis Pangilinan, Franklin Drilon, Paolo Benigno Aquino IV, Leila de Lima, Risa Hontiveros and Antonio Trillanes IV were slated on July 24, at 2 p.m., at the SC’s session hall. […]
(Eagle News) –Opposition senators on Wednesday, May 16, asked the Supreme Court to declare the Philippines’ withdrawal from the International Criminal Court as “invalid or ineffective.” In a 17-page petition for certiorari and mandamus, Senators Francis Pangilinan, Franklin Drilon, Bam Aquino, Leila De Lima, Risa Hontiveros and Antonio Trillanes IV also asked the High Court to compel the executive department, through the Department of Foreign Affairs and the Philippine Permanent Mission to the United Nations, […]
(Eagle News) – Members of the European Parliament urged the Philippine government to “stop extrajudicial killings” on the pretext of war on drugs, claiming that around 12,000 people, including women and children, have been killed in the illegal drugs campaign since July 2016. The resolution, which was adopted on Thursday, April 19, also called on the Philippine government to reverse its earlier decision to withdraw from the International Criminal Court (ICC) or the […]
(Eagle News) – Both the Philippines and Russia have ““affirmed their mutual support for each other” after a meeting in Malacanang between President Rodrigo Duterte and Russian Ambassador to the Philippines Igor Khovaev. Presidential Spokesperson said that the Russian Ambassador, in his meeting with President Duterte, handed a personal letter from Russian President Vladimir Putin. He said that the two discussed the Philippine government’s war on drugs and the ongoing crisis in Syria wherein […]
(Eagle News) — Presidential Adviser for Political Affairs Secretary Francis Tolentino on Monday, April 16 defended the remarks of President Rodrigo Duterte that he will arrest the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) if the latter will insist in going to the country. In an interview with Net 25’s, “Sa Ganang Mamamayan,” Tolentino said the statement of the President to arrest the ICC official, Fatou Bensouda, has basis. He said that the ICC’s […]
(Eagle News)—Senator Richard Gordon on Sunday, April 15, said President Rodrigo Duterte has every right to order the arrest of International Criminal Court prosecutors should they come to the country. “As far as the President is concerned, he has the right to protect the country. Kapag ang mga ito ay gagawa lang ng hindi mabuti, dine-destabilize ang bayan natin, he has that right,” Gordon said in a radio interview. He also agreed with Duterte’s position […]
YANGON, Myanmar (AFP) — Myanmar has expressed “serious concern” over an attempt at the International Criminal Court to open a probe into mass deportations of Rohingya Muslims, dismissing the claims and saying the court has no jurisdiction. Some 700,000 people from the stateless Muslim minority fled Myanmar’s Rakhine state to Bangladesh following Rohingya insurgent attacks on border guard posts in August last year. Myanmar says it was defending itself from the rebel Arakan Rohingya Salvation […]
“What is your authority now if we are not members of the (Rome Statute)?” he asks (Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte on Friday, April 13, threatened to bar the International Criminal Court prosecutor tasked to look into the drug war from entering the country. “Ms. Fatou (ICC prosecutor Fatou Bensouda), wag ka pumunta dito because I will bar you. Not because I’m afraid of you but because you will never have jurisdiction over my […]
