{"id":192455,"date":"2018-12-04T04:17:34","date_gmt":"2018-12-04T09:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=192455"},"modified":"2018-12-04T04:17:34","modified_gmt":"2018-12-04T09:17:34","slug":"icc-complaint-vs-duterte-mooted-by-kians-case-roque","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/12\/04\/icc-complaint-vs-duterte-mooted-by-kians-case-roque\/","title":{"rendered":"ICC complaint vs. Duterte mooted by Kian\u2019s case: Roque"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_173623\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-173623\" style=\"width: 1350px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Roque.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-173623\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Roque.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1350\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Roque.jpg 1350w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Roque-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Roque-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Roque-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1350px) 100vw, 1350px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-173623\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque announces during a press briefing in Malaca\u00f1ang on July 19, 2018 that the Landbank of the Philippines, the Department of Agrarian Reform, and the Department of Agriculture have launched the Accessible and Sustainable Lending Program for Small Farmers. The program aims to increase the income of small farmers, especially the Agrarian Reform beneficiaries, by providing them with financial assistance for their agricultural needs at a low interest rate of 6% per annum. TOTO LOZANO\/PRESIDENTIAL PH<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; The complaint against President Rodrigo Duterte before the International Criminal Court (ICC) has been disproved by the Caloocan City regional trial court\u2019s verdict, convicting three police officers for the murder of 17-year-old Kian Lloyd delos Santos, former presidential spokesperson Harry Roque said.<\/p>\n<p>The Hague, Netherlands-based ICC was established as \u201ca court of last resort\u201d in extreme cases wherein national courts have become totally ineffective in providing justice to victims, Roque said in a statement issued Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In this case, Judge Rodolfo Azucena Jr. has clearly demonstrated to all and sundry that our courts are more than able and more than willing to take strong legal action against criminals,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Roque, the only Filipino lawyer allowed to practice as a defense counsel in the ICC, said the conviction of the policemen is proof that the Philippine judicial system is working, not needing intervention from the ICC under the Rome Statute.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s absolutely no need for the ICC to waste time and resources on the complaint against Mr. Duterte,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The complaint before the ICC accused Duterte of crimes against humanity for deaths that have occurred as a result of the Philippine government\u2019s war on illegal drugs.<\/p>\n<p>The President on Monday also said he will not pardon the officers convicted of killing delos Santos in a purported drug operation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Of course not. Maybe one million years from now,&#8221; Duterte said, when asked by reporters if a pardon from him may be forthcoming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; The complaint against President Rodrigo Duterte before the International Criminal Court (ICC) has been disproved by the Caloocan City &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":173623,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192455","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}