Rodrigo Duterte, former Philippines president, charged with crimes against humanity at ICC | Philippines
The International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutors accused of three crimes against humanity by claiming to participate in former Filipins President Rodrigo Dutete in at least 76 murders as part of the “Drug War”.
A July 4, but on Monday, a heavy accusation page opened to the public, revealed charges against the 80 -year -old leader in The Hague in The Hague.
The first issue is concerned with the claim that it was a common allowance in 19 murders carried out between 2013-2016.
The second issue is related to 14 murders called “high -valuable targets ında in 2016 and 2017, when Duterte was president.
And the third accusation is about 43 murders committed during the “cleaning” operations of alleged lower -level drug users or dealers.
He claimed that the prosecution took place in the Philippines between 2016-2018.
ICC prosecutors, “as reflected in the widespread nature of the attack, the real grievance scale in the accused period was significantly higher,” he said.
“The attack contained thousands of murders consistently applied during the accused period,” he said.
The accusations against Duterte stem from the years of campaign against drug users and sellers, which the right groups have killed thousands of people.
On March 7, the arrest warrant for Duterte contained a crime against humanity against the alleged murder.
The accusations of the prosecutors came to hear the accusations against him, which is planned to be appeared in Duterte in ICC. However, the seating was postponed as the court weighs whether Duterte was appropriate to hear the accusations.
His lawyer Nicholas Kaufman said his client would not be tried as a result of cognitive deterioration in more than one field ”.
Kaufman called on ICC to postpone indefinitely against Duterte.
Duterte was arrested in Manila on March 11, flew to the Netherlands the same night, and since then he was held in the Schevengen Prison in the detention unit of ICC.
At his first hearing, he watched the video link, barely he looked confused and weak.
