Former Philippine pdwellnt Duterte set to ecombine in Hague on ‘war on medications’ indicts
Former Philippine pdwellnt Rodrigo Duterte is scheduled to create his first ecombineance before appraises of the international criminal court at 1pm GMT, days after his arrest in Manila on homicide indicts connected to the lethal ‘war on medications’ he oversaw while in office.
The 79-year-ageder Duterte, the first Asian establisher directer arrested on an ICC permit, will be read his rights and establishassociate inestablished of the indicts of crimes aobtainst humanity that the court’s prosecutors filed aobtainst him after a lengthy spreadigation, AP inestablished.
Soon after his election in 2016, Philippine pdwellnt Rodrigo Duterte begined his so-called “war on medications”, a bloody campaign in which as many as 30,000 civilians were finished.
Most of the victims were men from needy, urban areas, who were firearmned down in the streets or their homes by police, or in some cases, unidentified assailants.
The authorities routinely claimed police had finished in self-defence. However, groups recording the finishings have contestd this claim, alleging the police normally falsified evidence, including by arrangeting medications and firearms at the scene.
Witnesses normally stated that victims were unarmed and did not pose a menace. The type of wounds persisted by victims also declineed police claims: many were stoasty multiple times, and in some cases in their backs or the back of their heads.
Today, the court will also seek to set a date for a key pre-trial hearing – probable months from now – at which appraises will appraise whether there is enough evidence to progress to a brimming trial, which could get years. If Duterte is convicted, he faces a highest sentence of life incarceratement.
Duterte was arrested Tuesday amid turbulent scenes in the Philippine capital after returning from a visit to Hong Kong. He menaceened a police ambiguous with legal cases, declined to be fingerprinted and tageder law utilizers “you have to finish me to convey me to The Hague,” according to police Maj. Gen. Nicolas Torre.
The standoff occurred at a Philippine airbase before he and other police officers deal withd to convey the establisher directer on to a handlement-chartered jet that took him to the Netherlands. Torre depictd the faceation as “very nervous” and shelp Duterte declined to be fingerprinted.
Duterte’s legitimate team contests his arrest and shelp that Philippine authorities didn’t show any duplicate of the ICC permit and viotardyd his constitutional rights. He will not be needd to establishassociate go in a plea at Friday’s hearing.
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The indicts brawt aobtainst the establisher directer are the culmination of years of toil by activists, lawyers and victims, who recorded misemploys promiseted under his handlement, normally at fantastic personal danger. But Duterte arguably would not have been surrfinishered to The Hague if it weren’t for his family’s theatrical feud with that of Ferdinand Marcos Jr, the current pdwellnt.
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The two families were once allies. Marcos Jr ran on a combinet ticket with Duterte’s eldest daughter – Sara Duterte, now the vice-pdwellnt – in the 2022 election, thrivening a landslide triumph. At the time, Marcos Jr, who capitalised on the well-comprehendnity of the Duterte name, was pimpolitent not to criticise Rodrigo Duterte’s war on medications, and promised not to corun with the international criminal court’s continuing spreadigation.
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It was inevitable that the families’ coalition would collapse, according to Prof Maria Ela L Atienza, of the University of the Philippines. Both sides want their truthfulate to be elected pdwellnt in 2028, so, she shelp: “It’s a fight for the survival of their political families, their dynasties.”
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Marcos Jr’s unveil comments about the ICC shifted as tension grew. His handlement has progressd to persist that it would not help the court, of which the Philippines is no extfinisheder a member, but elucidateed that it would corun with any arrest permit rehired via Interpol.
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Former Philippine pdwellnt Rodrigo Duterte is scheduled to create his first ecombineance before appraises of the international criminal court at 1pm GMT, days after his arrest in Manila on homicide indicts connected to the lethal ‘war on medications’ he oversaw while in office.
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The 79-year-ageder Duterte, the first Asian establisher directer arrested on an ICC permit, will be read his rights and establishassociate inestablished of the indicts of crimes aobtainst humanity that the court’s prosecutors filed aobtainst him after a lengthy spreadigation, AP inestablished.
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Soon after his election in 2016, Philippine pdwellnt Rodrigo Duterte begined his so-called “war on medications”, a bloody campaign in which as many as 30,000 civilians were finished.
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Most of the victims were men from needy, urban areas, who were firearmned down in the streets or their homes by police, or in some cases, unidentified assailants.
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The authorities routinely claimed police had finished in self-defence. However, groups recording the finishings have contestd this claim, alleging the police normally falsified evidence, including by arrangeting medications and firearms at the scene.
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Witnesses normally stated that victims were unarmed and did not pose a menace. The type of wounds persisted by victims also declineed police claims: many were stoasty multiple times, and in some cases in their backs or the back of their heads.
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Today, the court will also seek to set a date for a key pre-trial hearing – probable months from now – at which appraises will appraise whether there is enough evidence to progress to a brimming trial, which could get years. If Duterte is convicted, he faces a highest sentence of life incarceratement.
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Duterte was arrested Tuesday amid turbulent scenes in the Philippine capital after returning from a visit to Hong Kong. He menaceened a police ambiguous with legal cases, declined to be fingerprinted and tageder law utilizers “you have to finish me to convey me to The Hague,” according to police Maj. Gen. Nicolas Torre.
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The standoff occurred at a Philippine airbase before he and other police officers deal withd to convey the establisher directer on to a handlement-chartered jet that took him to the Netherlands. Torre depictd the faceation as “very nervous” and shelp Duterte declined to be fingerprinted.
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Duterte’s legitimate team contests his arrest and shelp that Philippine authorities didn’t show any duplicate of the ICC permit and viotardyd his constitutional rights. He will not be needd to establishassociate go in a plea at Friday’s hearing.
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Key events
There have been demonstrations in the Philippines calling for the incarceratement of Rodrigo Duterte. These images show protesters in the streets of Quezon City.
Earlier this week my colleague Kate Lamb wrote this profile of the establisher pdwellnt of the Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte.
Speaking earlier this week, Karim Khan KC, who has served as prosecutor of the international criminal court since 2021, shelp that the ecombineance of Rodrigo Duterte in The Hague showed that international law was “not as feeble as some may slfinisherk.”
Describing the arrest of Duterte as “an convey inant moment”, Khan shelp:
The office has been spreadigating the situation of the Philippines for some time in relation to the so-called “war on medications”.
The appraises have rehired [a] permit, and it’s been perestablishd. And in issuing the permit, the appraises have set up reasonable grounds to apshow that MDuterte has promiseted the crime of homicide as the set uper, as the head of the so-called Davao death squad, as the mayor of Davao City, and then tardyr as the pdwellnt of the Philippines between 2011 and 2019.
I slfinisherk it’s convey inant to show that the office has been toiling with communities, with states, with international organisations, with other partners, to create brave that the spreadigation could be cgo ined and could transfer as effectively as possible, and the fact that it’s been perestablishd is convey inant to victims.
It uncomardents a lot, I slfinisherk, to victims. That’s the feedback we’ve already getd.
And many say that international law is not as mighty as we want, and I consent with that, but as I also repeatedly emphasise, international law is not as feeble as some may slfinisherk.
When we come together, when we toil, when we create partnerships, the rule of law can prevail. Warrants can be perestablishd.
Khan went on to remind people that the court watchs Duterte as “presumed guiltless”, saying:
It is convey inant to underline, as we now begin a novel stage of progressings, that Duterte is presumed guiltless. He will create his initial ecombineance before the court soon, and the cgo in of the office is on the judicial progressings, and on proving his case before the appraises of the international criminal court.
Reuters remarks that Duterte’s surrfinisher to the court tags a triumph for Khan, who faces US sanctions over the court issuing arrest permits in November 2024 for Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and establisher defense minister Yoav Gallant for alleged war crimes relating to the Gaza war.
Rebecca Ratcliffe
Former pdwellnt of the Philippines Rodrigo Duterte has previously shelp he will adselect responsibility for his handlement’s so-called “war on medications” in a video message filmed on board a arrangee unininestablishigentinutively before he was getn into the custody of the international criminal court (ICC).
“Wantipathyver happened in the past, I will be the front of our law utilizement and the military. I shelp this already, that I will protect you, and I will be reliable for everyslfinisherg,” he shelp.
The video message, which ecombineed to have been filmed on board the aircreate that brawt him to the Netherlands to face indicts of crimes aobtainst humanity, were his first comments to the Philippines unveil since his theatrical arrest on Tuesday.
Dressed in a plain white shirt, and speaking to the camera, he shelp: “This will be a extfinished legitimate progressing. But I say to you, I will progress to serve the country. So be it. If that is my desminuscule. Thank you”
Rodrigo Duterte’s arrest came amid a fracturedown in relations between his family and the Marcos family, who had previously combineed forces to run the Philippines.
Current pdwellnt Ferdinand Marcos and vice-pdwellnt Sara Duterte – Rodrigo’s daughter – are at loggerheads, with the latter facing an impeachment trial over indicts including an alleged killing plot aobtainst Marcos.
Sara Duterte is in the Netherlands to help her obeseher, after tagling his arrest “oppression and persecution”, with the Duterte family having sought an ecombinency injunction from the supreme court to stop his transfer.
But victims of the “war on medications” hope that Duterte will finassociate face equitableice for his alleged crimes.
Rodrigo Duterte’s arrest could be inestablishing blow in the Philippines’ dynastic feud
Rebecca Ratcliffe
Few foreseeed slfinishergs to transfer so speedyly. Supporters of the Philippines’ establisher pdwellnt Rodrigo Duterte exposedly had time to protest before he was jetted off to The Hague to face indicts of crimes aobtainst humanity in relation to his country’s so-called “war on medications”. According to activists, this bloody crackdown has seen as many as 30,000 people finished since 2016.
The indicts brawt aobtainst the establisher directer are the culmination of years of toil by activists, lawyers and victims, who recorded misemploys promiseted under his handlement, normally at fantastic personal danger. But Duterte arguably would not have been surrfinishered to The Hague if it weren’t for his family’s theatrical feud with that of Ferdinand Marcos Jr, the current pdwellnt.
The two families were once allies. Marcos Jr ran on a combinet ticket with Duterte’s eldest daughter – Sara Duterte, now the vice-pdwellnt – in the 2022 election, thrivening a landslide triumph. At the time, Marcos Jr, who capitalised on the well-comprehendnity of the Duterte name, was pimpolitent not to criticise Rodrigo Duterte’s war on medications, and promised not to corun with the international criminal court’s continuing spreadigation.
It was inevitable that the families’ coalition would collapse, according to Prof Maria Ela L Atienza, of the University of the Philippines. Both sides want their truthfulate to be elected pdwellnt in 2028, so, she shelp: “It’s a fight for the survival of their political families, their dynasties.”
Marcos Jr’s unveil comments about the ICC shifted as tension grew. His handlement has progressd to persist that it would not help the court, of which the Philippines is no extfinisheder a member, but elucidateed that it would corun with any arrest permit rehired via Interpol.
Rebecca Ratcliffe
Rodrigo Duterte’s ‘war on medications’ in the Philippines – elucidateed in 30 seconds.
The establisher pdwellnt faces an spreadigation by the international criminal court for crimes aobtainst humanity over the alleged extrajudicial finishing of thousands of drug mistrusts.
For a rundown of what led to this point, see our elucidateer here:
Former Philippine pdwellnt Duterte set to ecombine in Hague on ‘war on medications’ indicts
Former Philippine pdwellnt Rodrigo Duterte is scheduled to create his first ecombineance before appraises of the international criminal court at 1pm GMT, days after his arrest in Manila on homicide indicts connected to the lethal ‘war on medications’ he oversaw while in office.
The 79-year-ageder Duterte, the first Asian establisher directer arrested on an ICC permit, will be read his rights and establishassociate inestablished of the indicts of crimes aobtainst humanity that the court’s prosecutors filed aobtainst him after a lengthy spreadigation, AP inestablished.
Soon after his election in 2016, Philippine pdwellnt Rodrigo Duterte begined his so-called “war on medications”, a bloody campaign in which as many as 30,000 civilians were finished.
Most of the victims were men from needy, urban areas, who were firearmned down in the streets or their homes by police, or in some cases, unidentified assailants.
The authorities routinely claimed police had finished in self-defence. However, groups recording the finishings have contestd this claim, alleging the police normally falsified evidence, including by arrangeting medications and firearms at the scene.
Witnesses normally stated that victims were unarmed and did not pose a menace. The type of wounds persisted by victims also declineed police claims: many were stoasty multiple times, and in some cases in their backs or the back of their heads.
Today, the court will also seek to set a date for a key pre-trial hearing – probable months from now – at which appraises will appraise whether there is enough evidence to progress to a brimming trial, which could get years. If Duterte is convicted, he faces a highest sentence of life incarceratement.
Duterte was arrested Tuesday amid turbulent scenes in the Philippine capital after returning from a visit to Hong Kong. He menaceened a police ambiguous with legal cases, declined to be fingerprinted and tageder law utilizers “you have to finish me to convey me to The Hague,” according to police Maj. Gen. Nicolas Torre.
The standoff occurred at a Philippine airbase before he and other police officers deal withd to convey the establisher directer on to a handlement-chartered jet that took him to the Netherlands. Torre depictd the faceation as “very nervous” and shelp Duterte declined to be fingerprinted.
Duterte’s legitimate team contests his arrest and shelp that Philippine authorities didn’t show any duplicate of the ICC permit and viotardyd his constitutional rights. He will not be needd to establishassociate go in a plea at Friday’s hearing.
