“The Department of Justice is preparing a briefer on the legal options that President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. could take in the event the International Criminal Court issues warrants of arrest for those identified in its probe of the drug-related killings during the Duterte administration.”
What Vera Files found
The DOJ briefer is intended to provide the president legal measures he could take and does not signify a change in the administration’s policy of not cooperating with the ICC.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Mico Clavano (spokesperson of the Department of Justice) made this claim around 8 May 2024. Vera Files (Philippines) looked into it and published its finding on 13 May 2024, 5 days later. Its rating was “Needs context”.
Mico Clavano has 3 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 0 of them false or fake, 3 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
Where the claim appeared
- YouTube videohttps://youtu.be/bkGsOgbIgGw?t=38
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