The International Criminal Court Appeals Chamber has rejected the Philippines government’s request to suspend its investigation into the killings committed under former President Rodrigo Duterte’s bloody anti-drug campaign. | zacariansINQ
“The Appeals Chamber rejects the request of the Republic of the Philippines for suspensive effect of the aforementioned decision of Pre-Trial Chamber I,” the decision released by the ICC Appeals Chamber late Monday night read.
This came just two weeks after the Office of the Solicitor General asked the ICC Appeals Chamber to suspend and reverse the ruling that authorized theIn its ruling, the chamber noted that, “apart from merely referring to far-reaching and inimical consequences or implications of the Prosecutor’s activities on suspects, witnesses and victims,” the country had failed to explain what those implications might be and how the Prosecutor’s investigation would result in consequences that the OSG claimed...
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