The Philippine government has suffered another setback before the International Criminal Court-Appeals Chamber, which denied its request to suspend the implementation of the Pre-Trial Chambers’ (PTC) decision of January 26, 2023. Know more:
THE Philippine government has suffered another setback before the International Criminal Court-Appeals Chamber, which denied its request to suspend the implementation of the Pre-Trial Chambers’ decision of January 26, 2023, authorizing the resumption of the investigation on the abuses and deaths during the Duterte administration’s campaign on illegal drugs.
Solicitor General Menardo Guevarra argued that the activities of Prosecutor Karim Khan in relation to his investigation into the country’s situation “would lack any legal foundation and encroach” on the Philippine’s sovereignty. In denying the Philippines’s application for suspensive effect filed on February 6, the ICC-Appeals Chamber noted that it failed to explain how the supposed lack of jurisdiction or legal basis for the resumption of the investigation pending the resolution of its March 13 appeal would “defeat its very purpose and create irreversible situation that could not be corrected.”
The Philippine government has maintained that it is no longer under the ICC’s jurisdiction after it officially withdrew its signature to the Rome Statute on March 16, 2018 upon the directive of then President Duterte.Meanwhile, Guevarra expressed disappointment over the government’s latest setback before the ICC, insisting that this would have “far-reaching consequences” for the country.
Guevarra explained the ICC’s denial of the government’s plea for the suspension of the investigation “places us in the same class of rogue nations where the rule of law is not respected.”
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