“The Philippines has a fully functioning justice system and, under the complementarity test, the ICC has no jurisdiction over Filipino citizens.”
What Vera Files found
Paragraph 2, Article 127 of the Rome Statute stipulates that a state party is not exempt from its obligations for the duration of its membership even if it has withdrawn. The Philippines was a state party from Nov. 1, 2011 to March 16, 2019. In its decision to resume the investigation on the drug war, the Pre-Trial Chamber I noted that the probe conducted by the Philippines failed to look into the “systemic nature” of the alleged crimes as required by the ICC’s complementarity principle and c...
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In short
Jesus Crispin “Boying” Remulla (Justice Secretary) made this claim around 1 March 2023. Vera Files (Philippines) looked into it and published its finding on 6 March 2023, 5 days later. Its rating was “Needs context”.
Jesus Crispin “Boying” Remulla has 15 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 2 of them false or fake, 13 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
Where the claim appeared
- media.un.orghttps://media.un.org/en/asset/k1o/k1on728x59
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