00:00The sovereignty of the Philippines was not violated after former President Rodrigo Duterte was arrested.
00:06An international criminal law expert believes that the Philippines was a member of the ICC during the outbreak of the war against illegal drugs.
00:16Angela Peñalosa of Radyo Pilipinas for Balitang Pambansa.
00:22The ICC is used to collecting evidence.
00:26That's what Assistant Professor Michael Chu Jr. of UP College of Law gave in the middle of the spreading fake news
00:34up to the arrest of former President Rodrigo Duterte.
00:38Aside from the professionals and investigators,
00:41the judges are not surprised by these narratives because of the cases they have handled before.
00:48It will not affect the ICC.
00:50They are used to collecting evidence.
00:54Those who have been arrested before have not been immune to such narratives.
01:01They are professionals, investigators with experience.
01:06So, it will not affect them.
01:08And of course, there are always two sides to a trial.
01:12They can dispute whether an allegation is true or not.
01:17So, for me, it will not affect the ICC.
01:20It will be a different topic for the domestic world to see how it can influence our politics.
01:26The professor also believes that the sovereignty of the Philippines was not violated
01:31after the arrest of the former president even though we left the ICC.
01:35Chu explained that the Philippines did not force Duterte to be turned over to the ICC.
01:41There is also a temporal jurisdiction where the crimes under the Duterte administration
01:47happened while we were still a member of the ICC.
01:51There is a provision in the Rome Statute that says, Article 127,
01:57that the things that are already under the consideration of the court
02:02before we pass the Rome Statute
02:07will not be affected,
02:09will not be prejudiced in our passing the Rome Statute.
02:13From Radyo Pilipinas, Angela Penaloza for Balitang Pambansa.
