By Bart Meijer and Bart Biesemans THE HAGUE, Feb 23 (Reuters) - Former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte was "pivotal" in the murder of thousands of people during his reign, prosecutors at the ...

Duterte, who served as president from 2016 to 2022, waived his right to appear before the court. In a letter submitted to the ICC last week, Duterte repeated his refusal to recognize the court’s ...

Despite repeated denials by judges of the International Criminal Court, the lead defense counsel of former president Rodrigo ...

MANILA, Philippines — The common legal representatives of drug war victims in the International Criminal Court (ICC) have expressed concern that the six Filipino lawyers of former President Rodrigo ...

But last month, Duterte sat in an austere cell in The Hague as prosecutors argued that he should be tried for crimes against humanity. His only companions were his lawyer, prison staff, and a handful ...

Duterte is accused of crimes against humanity during a long and bloody war on drugs in which thousands were killed.

Lawyers representing victims in the crimes against humanity case against former president Rodrigo Duterte at the ...

As world institutions wobble, The Hague has unexpectedly become the stage for a reckoning long denied in the Philippines.

THE International Criminal Court’s (ICC) case against former Philippine President Rodrigo R. Duterte is shaping up to be a defining fault line for the 2028 presidential elections, analysts said, ...

Human rights groups and supporters of former President Rodrigo Duterte held separate protest actions Wednesday on the first ...