THE HAGUE: Former Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte believes he has no case to reply on the Worldwide Felony Court docket, his daughter stated on Sunday (Mar 23), and is assured he has a powerful authorized argument.
Sara Duterte, vice-president of the Philippines, instructed reporters her father was now in higher well being after showing fatigued and dazed at his first listening to on the ICC.
“He is very assured in regards to the authorized arguments. He is very assured … that what they did was unsuitable and there’s no case to start with,” Duterte instructed reporters.
The 79-year-old former president faces a cost of crimes towards humanity tied to his “conflict on medicine” by which hundreds had been killed.
He’s at present in a detention centre in The Hague, awaiting a affirmation of prices listening to on Sep 23, the place he can have the chance to contest the accusations towards him.
Duterte was bundled right into a aircraft in Manila and dropped at the Hague by way of Dubai, showing barely awake at his preliminary listening to two days later.
However his daughter, who stated she noticed him on Saturday, stated: “He feels higher now and fortunately the medical doctors and the nurses are taking excellent care of him.”
She had beforehand revealed that her father’s predominant criticism was the Dutch meals served within the centre.
