“President Rodrigo Duterte says he should be charged and prosecuted in a Filipino court, not in the International Criminal Court, for the human rights violations related to his war on drugs because the Philippines is no longer a member of the Hague-based ICC.”
What Vera Files found
The ICC Pre-Trial Chamber I ruled in September 2021 that all crimes related to the drug war that occurred during the Philippines’ membership from Nov. 1, 2011 to March 16, 2019 still fall under its jurisdiction.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Rodrigo Duterte made this claim around 12 June 2022. Vera Files (Philippines) looked into it and published its finding on 17 June 2022, 5 days later. Its rating was “Needs context”.
Rodrigo Duterte has 126 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 46 of them false or fake, 78 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
Where the claim appeared
- pcoo.gov.phhttps://pcoo.gov.ph/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/20220612-Speech-of-President-Rodrigo-Roa-D…
- YouTube videohttps://youtu.be/8sBJfHJ-gFM?t=1038
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