The biggest labor coalition in the Philippines on Tuesday denounced a Senate resolution seeking to protect former President Rodrigo R. Duterte from the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) probe of his deadly drug war.
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As this developed, Senator Jose “Jinggoy” Estrada filed a similar resolution expressing the upper chamber’s “strong opposition” to the ICC investigation. “My stance on this issue is also based on the Rome Statute’s principle of complementarity, which recognizes a state’s right to exercise jurisdiction over most serious crimes of international concern,” he added, noting that under this principle, the ICC will only act if the state is “unable or unwilling to investigate and prosecute the crime.”
President Ferdinand R. Marcos, Jr. on Saturday called the ICC’s probe a threat to the country’s sovereignty, saying the ICC did not have jurisdiction over the Philippines.
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