Overview
- Pretrial judges on Thursday dismissed the motion contesting ICC authority, allowing proceedings to continue.
- Judges found the 2018 preliminary examination placed the Philippines situation under ICC consideration despite the country’s 2019 exit from the Rome Statute.
- Duterte was arrested in March and transferred to The Hague on an ICC warrant linked to killings during his anti-drug campaign.
- He remains in detention after judges deemed him a flight risk, and he denies crimes against humanity alleged between Nov. 2011 and March 2019.
- Court-appointed medical experts will report on his fitness for trial by the end of October, with a health-related procedural decision expected in mid-November.