00:00The Office of the Solicitor General, OSG, said on Thursday, May 21st, that there is no basis to stop the
00:07implementation of the International Criminal Court's arrest warrant against Senator Ronald Bato de la Rosa after the Supreme Court denied
00:15his request for a temporary restraining order.
00:18In a statement, the OSG said a TRO from the Supreme Court would have temporarily stopped the ICC warrant, but
00:25since the High Court denied the request, authorities can now move forward with enforcing it.
00:29The Supreme Court turned down de la Rosa's plea in a 9-5-1 vote on May 20th, and the
00:34names of the justices and their votes will be released when the resolution is published.
00:38The petition is linked to the ICC's investigation of the Duterte administration's anti-drug campaign, in which former President Rodrigo
00:46Duterte and de la Rosa were accused of crimes against humanity.
00:50Duterte was arrested in March 2025 and sent to the Hague, Netherlands, to stand trial before the ICC.
00:56Earlier, the ICC named De la Rosa as an alleged indirect co-perpetrator in killings linked to anti-drug operations
01:03committed at least between July 3, 2016 and the end of April 2018 in the Philippines.
01:10The ICC's pre-trial chamber said Duterte and his alleged co-perpetrators had a common plan to target suspected criminals
01:19with violent acts, including murder.
01:21The ICC said at least 32 people were killed during the time covered by the warrant.
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