2024 SC ruling misrepresented as dismissal of Duterte’s ICC case

The video cites a 2024 Supreme Courtroom determination dismissing petitions for protecting writs filed by native human rights organizations; it’s not about Duterte’s case on the Worldwide Prison Courtroom

Declare: Former president Rodrigo Duterte is about to be launched from his detention on the Worldwide Prison Courtroom (ICC) after the Supreme Courtroom (SC) dominated in his favor and dismissed the petitions filed by human rights teams towards him.

Ranking: FALSE

Why we fact-checked this: The declare was made in a YouTube video posted on October 7, which has garnered 103,031 views, 7,600 likes, and 712 feedback as of writing. 

The video is titled “Stunning excellent news! Uuwi na [at] panalo si FPRRD, nagdesisyon na ang Korte Suprema! Palasyo [at] Kamara, tiklop!” 

(Stunning excellent news! [Former president Rodrigo Roa Duterte] is coming dwelling victorious, the Supreme Courtroom has determined! The Palace and Congress are cornered!) 

The video’s thumbnail reinforces the declare with the phrases “Case dismissed!” and “FPRRD panalo sa Korte Suprema! (FPRRD wins within the Supreme Courtroom)” together with references to the ICC. 

Within the video, a narrator asserts that the Supreme Courtroom has junked human rights petitions filed towards Duterte, implying that this ruling is related to Duterte’s case earlier than the ICC.

The info: Duterte shouldn’t be set to be launched. The video cites a 2024 SC ruling and misleadingly hyperlinks this to the previous president’s case on the ICC, the place he faces three counts of widespread homicide associated to his bloody conflict on medication.

The video misrepresents a separate authorized case involving writs of amparo and habeas knowledge petitions filed in Might 2019 by human rights teams Karapatan, Rural Missionaries of the Philippines, and Gabriela. These petitions sought safety for his or her members amid alleged threats and extrajudicial killings throughout Duterte’s presidency.

In June 2019, the Courtroom of Appeals dismissed these petitions, citing inadequate proof to assist the petitioners’ allegations. The petitioners appealed to the Supreme Courtroom, which affirmed the dismissal of the petitions with finality in 2024. 

The SC’s determination doesn’t impression the ICC’s ongoing investigation into the crimes towards humanity prices towards Duterte. 

Ongoing ICC detention: Duterte has been detained on the ICC detention middle in The Hague, Netherlands, since his arrest final March.

In a choice dated October 10, the ICC Pre-Trial Chamber I rejected Duterte’s request for interim launch, saying that he continues to pose a flight danger and that the dangers of witness intimidation and re-commission of crimes stay current. 

The ICC additionally denied Duterte’s attraction for humanitarian launch, saying his proper to household life stays assured below the courtroom’s situations. 

No going dwelling: Rappler has beforehand debunked quite a few claims in regards to the former president supposedly being launched from ICC custody: 

– Cyril Bocar/Rappler.com 

Efren Cyril Bocar is a journalist from Llorente, Jap Samar who graduated in English Language Research on the Visayas State College. Cyril can be a graduate of the Aries Rufo Journalism Fellowship of Rappler for 2024. 

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