The Philippines’ newly-elected president has ruled out the prospect of rejoining the International Criminal Court (ICC) amid the court’s request to resume its probe into the previous administration’s drug war.
President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., who took office on June 30, said the decision was made after consulting with his legal team on the ICC’s investigation of former President Rodrigo Duterte’s anti-drug campaign.
“What we are saying is it is already being investigated here, and it’s ongoing, so why would there be a need for it?” the president was quoted as saying by a state-run news agency.
Marcos Jr. said the government is still deciding how to respond to the ICC prosecutor’s request to reopen investigations into suspected human rights abuses committed under Duterte’s drug war….