BREAKING: The Philippine government, through the Office of the Solicitor General, sends its appeal brief to the International Criminal Court’s Appeals Chamber, urging the body to suspend its probe into drug war killings in the country.
The Philippines also claimed that if the ICC would proceed without jurisdictional basis, “its mandate would be adversely affected due to the implications such acts would have for those affected by the Court’s operations, in particular suspects, witnesses and victims.”
Aside from the suspension of the probe, the Philippine government specifically asked the chamber to grant suspensive effect until the resolution of its appeal. It also asked the body to declare that the ICC prosecution is not authorized to resume the probe. The appeal brief centered on the claim that the Philippines has already withdrawn from the Rome Statute and that the ICC has no jurisdiction over the Philippines. The Philippines even gave a statement that even assuming that jurisdiction is present, the country’s “efforts were not fully credited and its offer to maintain cooperation was unreasonably cut short.”ICC’s decision to resume the probe into drug-related killings under former president Rodrigo Duterte.
ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan, in multiple occasions, expressed that he was not satisfied with the Philippines’ intervention in the killings. In fact, Khan
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