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(Eagle News) — Senator Panfilo Lacson believes President Rodrigo Duterte can scrap the Visiting Forces Agreement without the Senate’s approval or consent. In a statement, Lacson said this was “in the absence of a Supreme Court ruling on the President’s power to unilaterally break a treaty/bilateral agreement like the VFA without the consent of 2/3 supermajority vote of the Senate.” “Having said that, the SC should act on the pending petition filed by a number […]
(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 […]
(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)—Opposition senators on Thursday, July 26, urged the Supreme Court to allow detained Senator Leila de Lima to represent them in oral arguments on their petition against the Philippines’ withdrawal from the International Criminal Court. In their four-page manifestation with motion, Senators Francis Pangilinan, Franklin Drilon, Bam Aquino, Risa Hontiveros, Antonio Trillanes IV and De Lima herself noted the detained senator was, they believe, the “best” who could “present and argue” the case, the issues […]
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)—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 […]
“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 […]
(Eagle News) — Malacanang said that “some human rights groups” may have become “tools of drug lords” in trying to stop the Philippine government’s campaign against illegal drugs and criminality. Presidential Spokesperson gave this warning in a statement as he noted that the “attacks against the President’s war on drugs have been vicious and non-stop.” “We therefore do not discount the possibility that some human rights groups have become unwitting tools of drug lords to […]
(Eagle News) – The International Criminal Court (ICC) said it will proceed with the preliminary examination on the case filed against the Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte and his officials, even as it had received notice that the country was withdrawing from the Rome Statute. In a statement, the ICC said that it was already officially notified by the United Nations on Monday, March 19, of the Philippines’ written notification of withdrawal, but explained that […]
The Hague, Netherlands — The president of the member-states of the International Criminal Court said Friday he regretted the Philippines was leaving the tribunal. “I regret this development. A state party withdrawing from the Rome Statute would negatively impact our collective efforts towards fighting impunity,” President O-Gon Kwon said, after the Philippines officially gave notice that it was leaving the court. Philippine Ambassador to the UN Teddy Locsin Jr. said he delivered the notice to UN Chef De […]
(Eagle News)– It is the “beginning of the end” for the International Criminal Court following the Philippines’ pullout, Malacañang said on Thursday. “I’m afraid and what makes me sad is that the Philippine withdrawal, I’m sure, will start an avalanche of other states leaving the court,” Roque, who then hailed the country’s ratification of the treaty that establishes the ICC, said in a press conference. He said this was because “no one will tolerate an […]
