On Friday, 13 August 2021, the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (“ICC” or “the Court”), Mr Karim A. A. Khan QC, concluded a week-long visit to Khartoum, Sudan. The visit represented Prosecutor Khan’s first visit to Sudan in his capacity as ICC Prosecutor.
With only 10 months left in his term, President Rodrigo Duterte said it was the Filipino nation, and not him or his family, who benefited from his administration’s drug war.
Malacañang on Monday downplayed a report which showed that 94 percent of drug war victims support the findings of former International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor Fatou Bensouda that the drug war and its perpetrators should be investigated for alleged crimes against humanity.
When the Supreme Court junked on mootness the petitions questioning President Rodrigo Duterte’s unilateral withdrawal from the International Criminal Court (ICC), law experts said it was a win for the President.
The International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor has held talks with Sudanese officials on accelerating practical steps to hand over those wanted by the court over alleged atrocities committed in Darfur in the early 2000s, two senior Sudanese government sources said on Wednesday.
The Philippine Department of Justice (DOJ) is still stonewalling on giving access to data on potential police abuses in President Rodrigo Duterte’s drug war, saying that it is something they will “deal with later.”
The International Criminal Court has received “overwhelming support” for its potential probe from victims of the Duterte administration’s bloody war on drugs.
London-based lawyers representing victims of Yemen’s ongoing conflict on Monday called for an International Criminal Court investigation into alleged war crimes by pro-government forces.