International Criminal Court Prosecutor Karim Khan rejected the arguments raised by the Philippine government in its appeal against the tribunal’s drug war investigation and pushed for the resumption of the inquiry.
International Criminal Court Prosecutor Karim Khan rejected the arguments raised by the Philippine government in its appeal against the tribunal’s drug war investigation and pushed for the resumption of the inquiry.
“The Philippines has failed to show any error in the decision, let alone identified any error which materially affects the decision,” Khan said in his filing. For one, Khan agreed that the ICC retains jurisdiction in this particular case since the Philippines was still a member of the Rome Statute — the treaty that governs the court — when the alleged crimes and killings were committed.“That the Philippines was not a State Party when the investigation was opened is immaterial and does not deprive the court of jurisdiction over crimes allegedly committed during the temporal scope of the investigation,” Khan argued.
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