The Vice President described the arrest of former President Rodriga Duterte for his deadly drug war as “oppression”.
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Rodrigo Duterte, who was president from 2016 to 2022, was on Tuesday on the plane A few hours after the arrest At Manila Airport for alleged “crime against humanity” arising from drug suppression in which thousands of people killed during his Presidency.
Duterte, 79, could now become the first Asian former head of the state to judge at the ICC.
Sara boarded the morning flight to Amsterdam, according to her office in a statement on Wednesday. He plans to help organize his father’s legal team in the Netherlands, a local news exit reported.
In a earlier statement, Sara said that her father was “forcibly taken to The Hague” in what meant “oppression and persecution.”
“This is obviously an insult to our sovereignty and an insult to any Philippines who believes in the independence of our nation,” she said.
According to Rapplera’s report, Filipin President Ferdinand Marcos JR defended his government’s decision to facilitate the arrest of the former president and transfer to the ICC, saying that he “in accordance with our obligations to Interpol” – the International Police Agency.
Duterte’s youngest daughter, Veronica Duterte, plans to apply for Habeas Corpus with the Filipin Supreme Court to win the Government to return his father, said Duterte’s former legal advisor Salvador.
Silvestre Bello, former Minister of Labor and one of the lawyers of the former president, said that the legal team would meet to evaluate opportunities and seek clarity where the former president would be taken and whether he would be granted access to him.
“The first thing we will do is find out where the former president will be brought in, so we know where we should go, because he will need legal aid,” Bello said.
“We will also talk about all possible legal remedies.”
Saravo trip to The Hague comes a month after it was imperative To the Philippine Lower House of Congress in the middle of a growing breakup with Marcos Jr.
The voting came after the legislators, many of whom have been ally of Marcos, signed a request for removal from duty.
Although the exact details are not divided, the voting on the impeution followed a a a series of complaints Accusation of vice presidents for crimes ranging from misuse of public funds to planning Marcos assassination.
Sara consistently denied injustice and described moves against her as a political vendet.
Although the ICC is yet to be issued an official statement of certain accusations against your father, court He explored allegations of “crimes against humanity” that Duterte had committed since 2018, when he was still in power.
Duterte ran for the President in 2016 at one edition of combat crime on the Philippines.
During his campaign and later as president, he repeatedly called the police to “kill” drug suspects or encouraged the suspect to fight to justify their deadly shooting.
According to police records, More than 7000 people They were killed in official anti -Russian operations during his six years in power.
In hours after the arrest of Duterte, family members and supporters of people killed during Duterte’s Presidency held a vigilantly awake candle in Quezon.
Their protest signs demanded justice for the victims of the so -called former president against drugs, law against terror and martial arts in Mindana.
