President Rodrigo Duterte has instructed the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency and other law enforcement agencies to submit a report on the government’s war on drugs to human rights groups.
Former House Speaker and incumbent Taguig-Pateros Rep. Alan Peter Cayetano said the next administration should continue the Duterte administration’s programs on the war on drugs, Build Build, Build, and access to financial programs.
Malacañang on Tuesday defended the government’s anti-narcotics campaign following the claim of Senator Panfilo Lacson that the war on drugs was a failure.
The stories of civilians getting their lives cut short because of extrajudicial killings (EJK) at the height of the gruesome war on drugs and the pervading culture of impunity are something that Filipinos would neither be forced to accept nor endure under a Lacson administration.
Senator Leila de Lima on Saturday said she backs Vice President Leni Robredo’s plan to pursue a comprehensive war on drugs, but without the brutal killings that characterized the murderous campaign launched by the current administration, should she win the presidency.
Malacañang has yet to receive a formal request from International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor Karim Khan asking the government for proof of its investigations into alleged crimes against humanity in President Rodrigo Duterte’s “war on drugs.”
MANILA – Malacañang on Saturday welcomed the decision of the International Criminal Court (ICC) to suspend its investigation into alleged human rights violations committed under the national anti-drug campaign but reiterated the Hague-based court “has no jurisdiction” over the Philippine government.
The Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) has temporarily suspended its investigation into the alleged crimes against humanity committed over the course of President Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs.
President Rodrigo Duterte’s candidacy for senator has nothing to do with the International Criminal Court (ICC) probe into his deadly war on drugs, Malacañang said.
President Rodrigo Duterte on Thursday reiterated he would never cooperate with the investigation launched by the International Criminal Court (ICC) on his brutal “war on drugs.”
