Amnesty International has urged President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. to cooperate with the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) investigations into the war on drugs of his predecessor, former president Rodrigo Duterte.
The ICC prosecutor has rejected the Philippine government’s request to stop the resumption of the investigation into Rodrigo Duterte’s drug war. What happens now? We’ll speak with lawyer Gilbert Andres of the Center for International Law.
Earlier, the UN Human Rights Office said the Duterte government’s drug war and national security approach had led to killings, arbitrary detentions and a crackdown on dissent
Phil Robertson, HRW’s deputy Asia director, stood by the legitimacy of data cited in the report, saying they were government numbers.