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The jurisdiction of the ICC investigation in the Philippines will be limited to the period when the country was a state party to the Rome Statute, between November 1, 2011, and March 16, 2019, encompassing almost three years of Duterte's presidency, during which the Philippine drug war was at its height.
[6] [7] The legislation is noted for having a policy on drug testing. [1] In 2008, the Supreme Court in 2008 that the mandatory drug testing on drug offenders obliged by the 2002 law is unconstitutional as per Social Justice Society vs. DDB and PDEA. Commission on Elections Resolution No. 6486 was likewise declared unconstitutional which ...
Based on the Rules of the Senate, the Senate Committee on Public Order and Dangerous Drugs has 9 members. The President Pro Tempore, the Majority Floor Leader, and the Minority Floor Leader are ex officio members. Here are the members of the committee in the 18th Congress as of September 24, 2020: [3]
On August 3, Duterte said that the Sinaloa cartel and the Chinese triad are involved in the Philippine drug trade. [84] On August 7, Duterte named more than 150 drug suspects including local politicians, police, judges, and military. [85] [86] [87] On August 8, the United States expressed concerns over the extrajudicial killings. [88]
The International Criminal Court (ICC) chief prosecutor Fatou Bensouda expressed concern over the drug-related killings in the country on October 13, 2016. [58] In her statement, Bensouda said that the high officials of the country "seem to condone such killings and further seem to encourage State forces and civilians alike to continue targeting these individuals with lethal force."
[2] [3] In 2012, the United Nations said the Philippines had the highest rate of methamphetamine use in East Asia, and according to a U.S. State Department report, 2.1 percent of Filipinos aged 16 to 64 use the drug [4] based on 2008 figures by the Philippines Dangerous Drugs Board. [5]
In the drug matrix released to the media which shows the drug trafficking operations in the prison, Duterte also identified former Pangasinan governor, now Congressman Amado Espino Jr., former Justice Undersecretary Francisco Baraan III and De Lima's former driver and alleged lover Ronnie Dayan as part of the Bilibid drug network. [3]
Yao Campos was born Yao Cho Diat in Ha-ngo-po, a village in Jinjing Town, Jinjiang, part of modern-day Quanzhou, China. [2] He lived there as a youth and was educated in the Chinese classics until he was old enough to be accepted for admission to the Whampoa Military Academy established by Sun Yat-sen—an honor which he described as "the ultimate dream of all patriotic Chinese boys." [3 ...