The failure of Philippine authorities to satisfactorily look into killings by the alleged Davao Death Squad is part of the reason why ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan has requested the Court’s pre-trial chamber to reopen investigation into the Philippines.
to the ICC details what he knows about dumping bodies of their victims to grave sites and burying grounds.recommending to the Office of the Ombudsman that it investigate Duterte’s “possible administrative and criminal liability” for the killings under his watch. Vice president-elect Sara Duterte was mayor from 2011-2013.
“The Justice Department and the National Prosecution Service have become instruments used by the President against his perceived enemies. A most prominent case is that of jailed opposition Senator Leila De Lima,” said Rise Up in a submission last November. The accreditation “signifies that [Conti] has met the qualifications necessary to be included in the list of persons who are eligible to be chosen by defense counsel ot legal representative of victims…but [her] inclusion in the list no way denotes de facto appointment or assignment to assist in the representation of accused or victims before the court,” said the ICC’s Counsel Support Section in its letter to Conti sent on June 17.
Amnesty International Secretary General Agnes Callamard, former United Nations Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial Killings , said she had known since 2019 that the domestic actions were purely administrative.
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