Philippines Plans to Withdraw From International Criminal Court

ICC had begun preliminary examinations into reports of extrajudicial killings in the Philippines

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte plans to pull his country out of the International Criminal Court, putting the court’s examination of alleged crimes against humanity in the Philippines in doubt.

Mr. Duterte is waging a bloody war on drugs that has killed thousands of mostly poor people in the Philippines, many of whom rights groups say were executed by police officers. The government denies that authorities systematically execute suspects.

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