MANILA, Philippines— Senator Imee Marcos called on the Filipino legal community on Wednesday to “resist” any attempt by the International Criminal Court (ICC) “to take over cases of alleged human rights abuses in the Duterte government’s war on drugs.”
“Foreign meddling in the Duterte case is not far-fetched,” Marcos said in a statement. “It would be an insult to every Filipino lawyer, judge and court if the ICC presumes to stand in their place, even before cases linked to the drug war undergo [the] due process in our very own judicial system.”
Before retiring last week, ICC Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda churned out a 57-page report requesting judicial authorization to …
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