Former president Rodrigo Duterte. (PNA file photograph)
MANILA, Philippines – Former President Rodrigo Duterte might face a jail sentence of as much as 30 years and even life imprisonment if convicted of crimes towards humanity by the Worldwide Felony Courtroom (ICC) in connection along with his warfare on medicine, Malacañang mentioned Wednesday.
“But it surely relies upon upon the defenses that may be availed of by the previous president,” Presidential Communications Workplace Undersecretary and Palace Press Officer Claire Castro mentioned in a press briefing.
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Based mostly on the ICC’s web site, the tribunal doesn’t impose the demise penalty, however its judges can sentence an individual to as much as 30 years of imprisonment, and below distinctive circumstances, a life sentence.
Verdicts are topic to attraction and judges may also order reparations for the victims, the ICC mentioned.
Duterte’s arrest by the Worldwide Felony Police Group (Interpol) and native police stemmed from the ICC’s ongoing investigation into allegations that Duterte’s anti-drug marketing campaign led to hundreds of extrajudicial killings when he was Davao Metropolis mayor and president of the nation.
The previous president was flown in a foreign country late Tuesday night time.
Castro, a lawyer by career, mentioned Duterte must face an area court docket within the Netherlands to find out if his arrest was correct earlier than being delivered to the ICC to face the costs towards him.
President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr., in a press convention moments after Duterte’s airplane departed for The Hague, harassed that the federal government was appearing on the request of the Interpol, not the ICC from which the Philippines has pulled out in 2019.
“The arrest that we did as we speak was in compliance with our commitments to Interpol. It simply so occurred that that got here from ICC. But it surely’s not as a result of it got here from ICC, it’s as a result of it got here from Interpol,” Marcos mentioned. (PNA)
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