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President Ferdinand Marcos said he would not hand over his predecessor to the International Criminal Court regardless of the ongoing tirades coming from former President Rodrigo Duterte.
The refusal of the current administration to hand over Duterte to the ICC came even as Duterte criticized Marcos earlier for being a drug addict. Marcos has also called out Duterte for drug use.“We are well within international law when we take the position of not recognizing the jurisdiction of the ICC in the Philippines,” the President stated.The ICC launched a formal inquiry into Duterte’s drug war sometime in September 2021.
The ICC’s chief prosecutor later moved to reopen the inquiry, and pre-trial judges at the court eventually agreed to reopen the case in late January 2023. It was a decision that Manila appealed shortly afterwards and lost. Duterte, who withdrew the country from the ICC in 2019, is under investigation for alleged human rights abuses committed under his bloody drug war.
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