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00:00By virtue of the warrant of arrest issued by the ICC for crimes against humanity, sir you have the right to remain silent.
00:13Former President Rodrigo Duterte was the first president of the country to face the prosecution of the International Criminal Court.
00:21It must be a murder, not just a defamation.
00:26Traveling towards The Hague in the Netherlands.
00:32His son Vice President Sara Duterte was followed.
00:36He called it a state kidnapping, the arrest of the father.
00:40President Bongbong Marcos was accused of political persecution and was involved in the election of 2028, the arrest of Duterte.
00:47The arrest that we did was in compliance with our commitments to Interpol.
00:53The process was done legally.
00:57Those who support the former president gathered in his baluarte in Davao City.
01:03The family of those who were killed in the extrajudicial killings of the Duterte administration is hoping for justice.
01:10Before the arrest of the former president Duterte in the visa of the arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court,
01:22the ICC has been silent since the Philippines broke up.
01:27The former president's camp is still hot, the ICC has no jurisdiction in our country.
01:32Here is the first news.
01:34Last night, former President Rodrigo Duterte boarded a plane to The Hague in the Netherlands,
01:44where the headquarters of the International Criminal Court or ICC is located, and was arrested.
01:50Before that, former President Duterte repeatedly denied that he does not know the jurisdiction of the ICC.
01:57What is that ICC? I do not recognize that.
02:01My first question is jurisdiction. I am a lawyer.
02:08I am a fiscal. Whenever I face a case here in the court, I ask every day, do I have the power?
02:21Do I have jurisdiction in this case?
02:25August 30, 2011, the Philippines ratified the Rome Statute that was established in the ICC.
02:32It became effective in the country in November 2011.
02:36February 8, 2018, the International Criminal Court announced that it has a pre-investigation on the extrajudicial killings
02:44in the war on drugs of former President Duterte based on the complaints filed against them.
02:50His spokesman said,
03:14More than a month later,
03:17President Duterte announced that the Philippines has violated the Rome Statute.
03:22The Philippines' violation of the ICC became effective in March 2019.
03:27Although the Philippines is no longer a member of the ICC, according to the ICC Appeals Chamber,
03:33it still has jurisdiction over the crimes committed by the Philippines when it was a member.
03:38This was confirmed by the Supreme Court's decision in March 2021.
03:42June 14, 2021, the ICC Prosecutor released a preliminary investigation
03:48on the valid evidence of crimes against humanity in the war on drugs from July 2016 to March 2019.
03:56That's why on September 15, 2021, the ICC Pre-Trial Chamber started the investigation in the Philippines.
04:04November 10, 2021, the government of the Philippines asked the ICC to stop their investigation
04:09because they are already conducting their own investigation here in the country.
04:14The ICC agreed to this.
04:16But on January 26, 2023, the ICC Pre-Trial Chamber
04:22asked the prosecutor to continue the investigation on the EJ case
04:26because they are not conducting the investigation in the Philippines.
04:29This was approved by the government of the Philippines, but the ICC did not agree.
04:33However, President Bombong Marcos said several times that they will not help the ICC.
05:04The former president has already decided if he will help the ICC.
05:08If that's what PRRD wants, we will not stop the ICC.
05:16We will not help them.
05:18But if he agrees to talk to the ICC or to have an investigation,
05:25that's up to him. We have no decision on that.
05:28Executive Secretary Lucas Bersamit said that the Philippines is obliged to help the ICC
05:34if the court passes its request to the Interpol or the International Criminal Police Organization.
05:40Meanwhile, the former President Duterte said several times that he is ready to face the ICC.
05:46I'm asking the ICC to hurry up and start the investigation tomorrow.
05:53The ICC does not scare me a bit.
05:58That's what he said before he returned from Hong Kong.
06:01It's okay. I will accept that. We have nothing to do.
06:06We will be arrested if we are imprisoned.
06:09Will you appear if you are summoned, sir?
06:12I would say that not really appear or non-appearance,
06:16but I will deal with the problem directly, frontally, as a lawyer.
06:25I will use my lawyer.
06:28Yesterday, the ICC issued a warrant of arrest to the former President.
06:34Until he is arrested, the former President does not acknowledge the power of the ICC.
06:39A warrant of arrest.
06:40So, you will just have to kill me.
06:44If I don't pay you, you will join the white people.
06:50This is the first news.
06:52James Agustin for JEMA Integrated News.
06:56Here are additional details about the warrant issued to the former President Rodrigo Duterte.
07:02According to the spokesperson of the Head of Public Affairs of the International Criminal Court,
07:06Paddy L. Abdala,
07:08the warrant of arrest issued by the ICC pre-trial chamber 1
07:13is for the incidents of murder that happened from November 1, 2011 until March 16, 2019.
07:21At the time that Duterte is already in custody,
07:25the ICC will set a schedule for the initial appearance hearing.
07:29Igan, you are the first in the news.
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