Timeline: ICC investigation of Duterte
2023
Jan. 26 – The ICC PTC grants Khan’s request, citing the country’s failure to conduct relevant investigations into the case.
Feb. 3 – The Philippine government appeals the PTC’s authorization given to Khan.
March 27 – The appeals chamber rejects the Philippine request.
July 18 – The Appeals Chamber of the ICC denies the government’s motion for reconsideration, allowing the resumption of the probe by the chief prosecutor. President Marcos responds by saying that his administration would end further engagement with the ICC.
2024
October – Trillanes says he sent copies of the transcripts of the Senate and House hearings on Duterte’s drug war to the ICC as additional evidence. Duterte told the Senate he had a death squad which he ordered to kill suspected drug offenders when he was mayor of Davao City.
November – Duterte appears in the House quad committee hearing. He reiterates that he will assume full responsibility for all the drug war killings and dares the ICC to “hurry up and to come here and start the investigation tomorrow.”
He says he “assume[s] full responsibility for whatever happened in the actions taken by the law enforcement agencies of this country, to stop the drugs or the serious problem of the drugs affecting our people.”
November – The ICC launches an “ICC witness appeal” microsite dedicated solely to collecting “credible information” on the drug war. The website aims to seek more potential witnesses to the atrocities allegedly committed by Duterte in his brutal war on drugs in another effort that could speed up the ongoing investigation of the crimes against humanity he is being accused of.
Sources: Inquirer Archives, icc-cpi.int
