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(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 […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
