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Cavite airport builder to be tagged in case vs China's Xi

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Sep 24 10:56 AM

A Chinese firm that is set to build an airport in Cavite province will be included in the case against Chinese President Xi Jinping before the International Criminal Court, one of its petitioners said Thursday.  Read more »

Maritime expert says there's precedent for ICC to probe Xi, et al for crimes vs humanity

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Sep 17 08:55 AM

A maritime expert believes there is already a precedent for the International Criminal Court to investigate Chinese officials, including Chinese President Xi Jinping, for crimes against humanity in the West Philippine Sea. Read more »

Carpio joins legal luminaries in international case vs China's Xi Jinping

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Sep 16 11:14 PM

A landmark case filed against Chinese President Xi Jinping before the International Criminal Court seeks to boost its legal firepower by tapping another Filipino legal luminary.  Read more »

Ex-justice Carpio tapped to boost case vs China's Xi over sea row

Christian V. Esguerra, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Sep 16 02:00 PM

Former Supreme Court Senior Associate Justice Antonio Carpio has joined 2 former Philippine government officials in a landmark case seeking to punish Chinese President Xi Jinping over his country's destructive activities in the South China Sea.   Read more »

‘Kill all you see’: In a first, Myanmar soldiers tell of Rohingya slaughter

Hannah Beech, Saw Nang and Marlise Simons, The New York Times
Posted at Sep 08 10:44 PM

The atrocities described by the 2 men echo evidence of serious human rights abuses gathered from among the more than 1 million Rohingya refugees now sheltering in neighboring Bangladesh.  Read more »

Uighurs urge ICC to probe Chinese 'genocide'

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jul 08 05:54 AM

Exiled Uighurs urged the International Criminal Court on Tuesday to investigate China for genocide and crimes against humanity, filing a huge dossier of evidence with the Hague-based court to back their case. Read more »

OPINION: Duterte, Sudan’s al-Bashir, and China

Ellen T. Tordesillas
Posted at Feb 17 02:17 PM

President Duterte and his accomplices may delay the inevitable by seeking refuge to a place out of reach of the International Criminal Court. There’s one that we can think of: China. Read more »

ICC verdict can be applied on current or former President: Carpio

Sherrie Ann Torres, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jan 18 04:36 AM

This was the answer of retired Senior Associate Justice Antonio Carpion when he was asked Friday by journalists about the extent of the crimes against humanity case filed against Duterte before the ICC. Read more »

Duterte's former ICC accuser dances around case's veracity

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jan 17 09:47 AM

The case against President Rodrigo Duterte before the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) was politically motivated, the lawyer who filed it said Friday, despite admitting that he "cannot say what is true" or not in the allegations. Read more »

OPINION: Why the Sabio communication withdrawal is inconsequential

Romel Regalado Bagares*, VERA Files
Posted at Jan 15 07:43 PM

Lawyer Jude Sabio really has no case to withdraw because his submission is not even a case yet.  Read more »

Lawyer details money gripes vs Trillanes in ICC withdrawal move

Christian V. Esguerra, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jan 15 03:43 PM

Lawyer Jude Sabio said the complaint he filed in 2017 over Duterte’s “crimes against humanity” was “just part of the political propaganda” of former Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV other opposition figures “of which I do not wish to be a part.” Read more »

Duterte critics only using ICC, Palace says

Arianne Merez, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jan 15 11:32 AM

Critics of President Rodrigo Duterte are only using the International Criminal Court to ruin his reputation, Malacañang said Wednesday after a lawyer withdrew his communication to the tribunal on the chief executive’s supposed "crimes against humanity." Read more »

Sabio not paid to withdraw ICC case vs Duterte: Gadon

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jan 15 09:23 AM

Lawyer Jude Sabio was not paid by anyone to withdraw his communication against President Rodrigo Duterte before the International Criminal Court, his colleague said Wednesday.   Read more »

Sabio communication on Duterte's 'crimes against humanity' can’t be withdrawn, ICC prosecutor says

Mike Navallo, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jan 15 04:24 AM

Hours after lawyer Jude Sabio announced he was withdrawing the communication against the Philippine drug war that he filed with the International Criminal Court (ICC), the ICC Office of the Prosecutor (OTP) said late Tuesday any communication filed with their office “cannot be withdrawn.” Read more »

Lawyer withdraws his ICC communication vs PH drug war

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jan 15 04:12 AM

The lawyer who first filed a communication against President Rodrigo Duterte's drug war before the International Criminal Court makes good on his threat to withdraw his case after a falling out with former senator Antonio Trillanes IV. Read more »

Lawyer withdraws 'crimes against humanity' complaint vs Duterte before ICC

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jan 15 04:17 AM

A lawyer who filed a communication against President Rodrigo Duterte for "crimes against humanity" before the International Criminal Court (ICC) said Tuesday he had withdrawn his case. Read more »

Palace asserts PH out of ICC jurisdiction after tribunal sets 2020 deadline for drug war preliminary exam

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Dec 07 05:38 PM

The International Criminal Court (ICC) does not have jurisdiction over the Philippines, a Malacañang official said Saturday, a day after a report claimed that the ICC is set to finalize its preliminary examination on drug war issues next year. Read more »

ICC aims to finalize preliminary exam on PH drug war case in 2020: report

Jofelle P. Tesorio, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Dec 06 08:45 PM

On Feb. 8, 2018, ICC prosecutor Fatou Bensouda announced the opening of a preliminary examination on the alleged crimes committed during President Rodrigo Duterte's drug war. This, after her office reviewed a number of communications and reports documenting alleged crimes. Read more »

ICC prosecutor junks complaint vs Xi Jinping on West Philippine Sea dispute

Mike Navallo, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Dec 05 11:41 PM

MANILA (UPDATED) - The International Criminal Court's (ICC) Office of the Prosecutor has junked the communication filed by 2 former government officials and Filipino fishermen against Chinese President Xi Jinping over alleged destruction of natural resources in the West Philippine Sea. Read more »

Congolese warlord 'Terminator' gets harshest ever ICC sentence

Sara Magniette, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Nov 07 09:29 PM

Fighters loyal to him carried out atrocities such as a massacre in a banana field behind a village in which at least 49 people including children and babies were disemboweled or had their heads smashed in. Read more »