{"id":152575,"date":"2018-02-13T00:25:09","date_gmt":"2018-02-13T05:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=152575"},"modified":"2018-02-13T00:25:09","modified_gmt":"2018-02-13T05:25:09","slug":"war-on-drugs-continues-says-duterte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/02\/13\/war-on-drugs-continues-says-duterte\/","title":{"rendered":"War on drugs continues, says Duterte"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Rodrigo Duterte has no plans to cease the government\u2019s war on drugs even with the International Criminal Court\u2019s (ICC) impending preliminary investigation against him.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The war or the drive against drugs will not stop and it will last until the day I step out,\u201d Duterte said in a speech at the Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center in Cebu City.<\/p>\n<p>He added that if continuing the campaign against illegal drugs could bring him to prison, then so be it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cIf I go to prison, I will go to prison,\u201d Duterte said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">He also said he is ready to stand by his belief and is ready to die for it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cIf you want to execute me, look for a country that allows the execution of prisoner by firing squad,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Duterte is set to undergo a preliminary investigation after Filipino lawyer Jude Sabio filed charges against him before the ICC.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The initial probe will focus on the alleged misconducts committed by Duterte in his campaign to end the proliferation of narcotics in the country.<\/p>\n<p><strong>(DAILY NEWS ROUND UP FOR 02\/ 13 \/18)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Rodrigo Duterte has no plans to cease the government\u2019s war on drugs even with the International Criminal Court\u2019s (ICC) &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":114184,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2444,46425],"class_list":["post-152575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uncategorized","tag-rodrigo-duterte","tag-vicente-sotto-memorial-medical-center","mauthors-ro-angelica-equio","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}