President Duterte has signed Proclamation No. 197 as a special non-working day in Metro Manila to pave way for the orderly and peaceful conduct of the 30th Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit hosted by the Philippines this weekend.
Senator Leila de Lima has shot down claims by some of her colleagues that charges of mass murder raised against President Rodrigo Duterte with the International Criminal Court (ICC) would not prosper.
Senator Leila de Lima is not impressed by the decision of Marikina Rep. Miro Quimbo and 14 other party mates in the Liberal Party (LP) aligned with the “supermajority” not to support the impeachment case against President Rodrigo Duterte.
Chief Legal Presidential Adviser Salvador Panelo dismissed as a mere propaganda the move of the group of self-confessed Davao Deathe Squad (DDS) killer Arturo Lascanas to elevate the extra-judicial killings of drug suspects to the International Criminal Court (ICC).
Senator Antonio Trillanes IV on Tuesday (April 25) heaved a sigh of relief upon learning of the filing of a criminal case against President Duterte for carrying out an alleged national bloodbath stemming from his war against drugs.
Doubts were raised on Tuesday on the Armed Forces’ claims that it has foiled a planned attack in Bohol and kidnapping of foreigners after it implicated the alleged lover of police colonel Maria Cristina Nobleza in a 17-year old Sipadan hostage-taking incident where Abu Sayyaf took 21 hostages from the dive resort island of Sipadan on April, 2000.
Senator Panfilo Lacson on Tuesday (April 24) believes that charges of crimes against humanity against President Duterte before the International Criminal Court (ICC) are doomed to fail if these are only backed up by testimonies of self-confessed hitman Edgar Matobato and retired SPO3 Arthur Lascanas.
Duterte allies question timing of ICC complaint: You can’t bring a good man down
House opposition bloc leader, Ifugao lone district Rep. Teddy Baguilat believes that the International Criminal Court (ICC) case filed against President Rodrigo Duterte would only boost the impeachment complaint hanging over the latter’s head.
Duterte won’t get away with murder, online critics say about ICC case
