“The International Criminal Court should no longer investigate in the Philippines because the country has ceased to be a state party to the Rome Statute that established the Netherlands-based tribunal.”
What Vera Files found
Article 127, paragraph 2 of the Rome Statute stipulates that a country that has withdrawn is not cleared of its obligations for incidents that happened during its membership. It is part of the Philippines’ exercise of its sovereignty when it acceded to the Rome Statute in November 2011, hence binding the country to the treaty provisions from that date until its withdrawal on Mar. 16, 2019.
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In short
Mico Clavano made this claim around 28 January 2023. Vera Files (Philippines) looked into it and published its finding on 1 February 2023, 4 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/t0nXY3VbpMU?t=675
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