00:00Former President Rodrigo Duterte was immediately released from prison.
00:05The first target of his legal team,
00:08they are now studying what will be their defense against the ICC.
00:13Ian Cruz is watching.
00:19The legal team of the former President Rodrigo Duterte is still preparing.
00:22They were brought to the Hagues and the Netherlands
00:24to face the case of Crimes Against Humanity,
00:27a bloody war on drugs.
00:29According to his former Labor Secretary,
00:31Atty. Silvestre Belio Duterte,
00:34among his colleagues for the defense of the former President,
00:38were Atty. Martin Del Gra,
00:40Atty. Israelito Torreon,
00:42Atty. Vic Rodriguez,
00:44Atty. Fred Lim, class of President,
00:46and Atty. Cesar Billy Dulay, former Commissioner of the BIR.
00:50Their team also includes
00:52former Executive Secretary Salvador Medialdea,
00:55who accompanied the former President
00:57when the authorities traveled to the Netherlands.
01:00They are also studying
01:02how the case against the ICC is rolling.
01:05We have to prepare for his defense initially,
01:08and then we have to study the processes in the ICC.
01:15Frankly, we don't know the processes there now.
01:18But just like any judicial body,
01:22they are not far from our process.
01:26When it comes to the case,
01:27their primary mission is to get the former President out of jail.
01:31When we get there, we can ask for his release,
01:34temporary release.
01:36There is no reason to detain him
01:39while the case is on trial.
01:42If it's trial, then trial.
01:45If it's recess, then we can take him home to the Philippines.
01:49There is a provision in the ICC rules
01:51regarding the interim release of a defendant,
01:53but it depends on the conditions and considerations of the court.
01:58Do you think he will qualify in their conditions?
02:03Because it's a conditional release, the interim release.
02:06What are their conditions?
02:08He won't escape.
02:10That's all they're thinking, he won't escape.
02:13Will the President escape? Where will he go?
02:16How can he hide?
02:17Former President, can he hide?
02:19All the people know him.
02:21One of their main questions is the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court or ICC
02:27because the Philippines did not say this after withdrawing in 2019.
02:32Even the Warrant of Arrest issued by Interpol in the country
02:37that Anibelio did not see.
02:39In one statement, the ICC said that after becoming a member in November 2011,
02:44the withdrawal of the Philippines was effective from the Rome Statute in March 2019.
02:50Despite this, the ICC still has jurisdiction over the crimes committed in the Philippines
02:57while he is still a member of the Rome Statute.
03:00A lawyer cannot just enter an appearance in the International Criminal Court
03:06to become a legal counsel of a defendant or victim.
03:11A lawyer must first apply to the ICC to be admitted to the list of counsel.
03:17Only five Filipino lawyers are on the list of counsel of the ICC,
03:22including the former President Duterte, Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque,
03:26who may also be on the list of defendants of the former President.
03:32Some lawyers of the victims of the drug war said that they are also in the Netherlands now.
03:37It also means that no one is above the law, that there will be a day of reckoning,
03:41there will be a day of justice for everyone, even powerful men such as Duterte.
03:47For GMA Integrated News, Ian Cruz, for 24 Hours.
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