“Former president Rodrigo Duterte was detained by the International Criminal Court without recourse for bail. He does not intend to intimidate witnesses should he be allowed interim release and his 43 murder charges do not amount to crimes against humanity.”
What Vera Files found
Right to bail is not expressly stated in the rules of procedure of the International Criminal Court. Rodrigo Duterte has a history of threatening critics and witnesses when he was president. The prosecution filed in the ICC 43 counts of murder from thousands of alleged extrajudicial killings related to the drug war, saying these were sufficient to show a pattern of violence characteristic of crimes against humanity.
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In short
Sara Duterte made this claim around 26 June 2025. Vera Files (Philippines) looked into it and published its finding on 4 July 2025, 8 days later. Its rating was “Needs Context”.
Sara Duterte has 21 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 4 of them false or fake, 16 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
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