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    Rodrigo Duterte

    President of the Philippines from 2016 to 2022

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  2. Nov 27, 2023 · The international court continues to investigate Philippine former President Rodrigo Duterte’s deadly anti-illegal-narcotics campaign despite the country withdrawing from the tribunal.

    • Chad de Guzman
  3. 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...

    • ‘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 ...

    • Ted Regencia
  4. Jul 18, 2023 · Thousands have died under former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's war on drugs. The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Tuesday rejected an appeal by the Philippine government to...

  5. Mar 14, 2023 · Stay on top of Rodrigo Duterte latest developments on the ground with Al Jazeera’s fact-based news, exclusive video footage, photos and updated maps.

  6. Jul 15, 2021 · Duterte’s spokesman Harry Roque has said the Philippine government will not cooperate with any effort by The Hague, citing the president’s decision to withdraw its ICC membership in 2019.

  7. Sep 16, 2021 · The International Criminal Court formally authorized an investigation into the anti-drug war of President Rodrigo Duterte. Human rights defenders and families of victims claim it as a victory.

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