ASEAN HEADLINES- DU30 DRUG WAR-EJK: MANILA, Philippines- Duterte will not cooperate with ICC drug war probe

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MANILA, Philippines (Update 2, 6:31 p.m.) — Malacañang won’t cooperate with the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) probe on President Rodrigo Duterte’s bloody war on illegal drugs and is confident that the case will just languish because investigators won’t find evidence that will back the complainants’ allegations.

An ICC pre-trial chamber has approved the conduct of an investigation on the complaints filed against Duterte, saying the crime against humanity of
murder “appears to have been committed” and that potential cases arising from the probe appear to fall within the court’s jurisdiction.