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Mar 14, 2023 · 15 Feb 2024. Unbeaten, unbowed: Leila de Lima marks six years in detention. Former Philippines senator and outspoken critic of ex-President Rodrigo Duterte sees hope for freedom. 24 Feb...
Oct 2, 2021 · Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte says he is retiring from politics and will not stand in elections next year. The 76-year-old leader said last month that he would run for the...
Jan 29, 2024 · Read More. By JIM GOMEZ. Updated 2:49 AM PDT, January 29, 2024. MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is throwing allegations at his successor, Ferdinand Marcos Jr., and even raising the prospect of removing him from office, bringing into the open a long-rumored split between the two.
- ‘Reign of Terror’
- Withdrawal from ICC
- ‘Davao Death Squad’
- Taunting The ICC
Duterte ran for president in 2016 on a single issue of fighting crime in the Philippines. During his campaign and later on as president, he repeatedly urged police to “kill” drug suspects. After taking office on June 30, 2016, he immediately launched his deadly campaigndescribed by the country’s Catholic leaders as a “reign of terror”. The latest g...
In response to the initial move of the ICC to look into the drug war in the Philippines, Duterte withdrew the Philippines’s membership from the ICC in March 2018. The decision came into force exactly a year later in 2019. When he announced he was going to withdraw from the court, Duterte defended his crackdown, saying it was “lawfully directed agai...
Aside from the Duterte “drug war”, the ICC also said that it will look into alleged summary executions committed in the southern city of Davao between 2011 and 2016, when Duterte was mayor before he was elected president. The ICC investigated at least 385 extrajudicial killings in Davao, covering the period that the Philippines was a state party to...
When Bensouda first looked into the allegations of abuses in the Philippines, Duterte taunted her, referring to her as “that black woman”. He also called another UN human rights investigator, Agnes Callamard as “skinny and malnourished.” Callamard is now the secretary-general of Amnesty International. In his State of the Nation address in July, he ...
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Jan 28, 2024 · MANILA, Philippines – Former president Rodrigo Duterte warned that President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. could be ousted like his late dictator father if his administration pursues moves to amend...
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May 21, 2024 · Lawmakers finally get around to asking questions about Rodrigo Duterte’s drug war, that have long been raised and exposed by the media, human rights advocates, and families of victims
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Apr 12, 2024 · April 12, 2024 3:05 AM EDT. F ormer President Rodrigo Duterte accused the U.S. of inflaming tensions between China and the Philippines in the South China Sea, while criticizing his successor...
