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Government doctors have examined the former president, and he is in good health and good condition,
It is an illegal arrest because the ICC arrest warrant comes from a spurious source, the ICC, which has no jurisdiction over the Philippines,
Panelo said in a statement What is the crime I committed? ... I was brought here not on my own volition. It's somebody else's."
Duterte himself questioned his detention, asking in a video released by his family on social media Duterte’s arrest is the beginning of accountability for the mass killings that defined his brutal rule,
ICHRP chairperson Peter Murphy said If it’s really my fate in life, that’s okay, I will accept it. There’s nothing I can do about it.”
While visiting Hong Kong on Saturday, Duterte had commented about the impending arrest, saying If you do not put it on record, this could be subject to historical revisionism in the future,
Let me say this for the 100th time. I do not recognise the jurisdiction of ICC in the Philippines. The Philippine government will not lift a finger to help any investigation that the ICC conducts.”
Then, in early 2024, he was quoted as saying We call for and support the expeditious surrender and transfer of custody of Duterte to the ICC,
You will just have to kill me if I will not comply,
Duterte was caught saying in a video clip, talking to police officials who arrested him as soon his plane landed in the Philippine capital on Tuesday He’s now in the custody of authorities,
the government statement said, noting What is the law and what is the crime that I committed?”
In another video posted on Instagram by Duterte’s youngest daughter, Veronica Duterte, the former leader was seen asking authorities His legal problem is caused by laws enforceable by the ICC. His lawyers should endeavor to secure a copy of the ICC charges against him so that they will know why he was ordered to be arrested by the ICC,
Early in the morning, Interpol Manila received the official copy of the warrant of the arrest from the ICC,
the presidential palace said in a statement It’s going to be a long road from Manila to The Hague,
The government will be treading here on a minefield, politically,
Legally, you cannot send out someone sought in a criminal procedure abroad without an extradition treaty,
It’s not as if he’s traveled to somewhere else and they’ve grabbed him there,
said Sarah Williams, an international criminal law professor at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia It does suggest there’s quite serious domestic politics at play,
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