Longtime Duterte ally Senator Bato dela Rosa questions the arrest of former president Rodrigo Duterte before the Supreme Court.
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00:00Longtime Duterte ally Senator Bato De La Rosa questions the arrest of former President Rodrigo
00:06Duterte before the Supreme Court.
00:08De La Rosa files a petition for certiorari and prohibition with the High Court, which
00:12is dominated by judges appointed by Duterte when he was president.
00:16The petition seeks a temporary restraining order to prevent the Philippine government
00:20from working with the ICC and Interpol.
00:22It also asks the High Court to rule that it is unconstitutional for the government to
00:26cooperate with the ICC.
00:29De La Rosa was Duterte's first national police chief and was the chief implementer
00:33of the drug war.
00:34He was named in one of the previous reports of the ICC prosecutor, but it is unclear whether
00:39he too will be implicated in the ICC case.
00:43This is not the first time that an ICC-related petition was filed with the Supreme Court.
00:47In a 2021 ruling, the High Court said the Philippines must still cooperate with the
00:52ICC in criminal proceedings that began before the country withdrew from the court in 2019.
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