ICYMI: The government has formally asked the International Criminal Court to reverse its decision to reopen the investigation into the killings committed under the Duterte administration’s antidrug campaign.
The Philippines argued that if the ICC would proceed without jurisdictional basis, “its mandate would be adversely affected due to the implications such acts would have for those affected by the Court’s operations, in particular suspects, witnesses and victims.”
It stressed that “the Philippine Government has openly recognized its responsibility to investigate and prosecute crimes which occurred in connection to the anti-illegal drugs campaign and continued to willingly engage with the Court following its withdrawal which took effect on 17 March 2019.
In a Feb. 3 notice of appeal, the government, through Solicitor General Menardo Guevarra, who served as Duterte’s justice secretary, sought the reversal of the ICC chamber’s decision.Under ICC processes, the prosecutor is given the chance to respond after the submission of the appeal brief. First, it said, the PTC erred “in law in finding that the Court could exercise its jurisdiction on the basis that the Philippines was a State party ‘at the time of the alleged crimes’ and that the ‘ensuing obligations’ of the Rome Statute remain applicable notwithstanding the Philippines withdrawal from the Statute.”
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