MANILA, Philippines — Senator Panfilo Lacson on Tuesday downplayed recent findings by the International Criminal Court (ICC) Office of the Prosecutor that there is “reasonable basis to believe” that crimes against humanity were committed under the Duterte administration’s drug war.
“I’m not sure what the ICC prosecutor actually meant by ‘reasonable basis to believe.’ Under the ICC statute, reasonable grounds to believe is considered as an ‘unreasonably unclear evidentiary threshold’,” Lacson said in a statement when sought for comment.
“In the realm of possibilities to prosecute the President for crimes against humanity, the statement of Prosecutor Bensouda may only be good as a …
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