VP Sara names lead counsel in her father's ICC trial

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Vice President Sara Duterte named her father’s, former president Rodrigo Duterte, lead counsel in facing the International Criminal Court (ICC) trial for crimes against humanity of murder. (Video courtesy of Harry Roque / FB)  READ: https://mb.com.ph/2025/3/15/vp-sara-names-lead-counsel-in-her-father-s-icc-trial  Subscribe to the Manila Bulletin Online channel! - https://www.youtube.com/TheManilaBulletin  Visit our website at http://mb.com.ph Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/manilabulletin Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/manila_bulletin Instagram: https://instagram.com/manilabulletin Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@manilabulletin  #ManilaBulletinOnline #ManilaBulletin #LatestNews

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00:00What's the plan now? The next hearing is September 25th. How will the family prepare for this?

00:12Okay, so I have not discussed the arrangements with Nexob Kin and relatives here. I will

00:23discuss it with them tonight. And I will relate to them also what the President said and what

00:33the President wanted to know. So yes, we have agreed on the arrangements. But I will not

00:43discuss it until a relative comes to make sure that there is a Nexob Kin.

00:53Do you have a defense team?

00:56Defense team, yes. We already have a lead counsel. We had a meeting with him yesterday.

01:04And then we will have a meeting in person when he arrives at this meeting.

01:11And how many?

01:14Is it Nicholas Tocman?

01:17Yes, the President already appointed Nicholas Tocman as his lawyer.

01:30Ma'am, any comment on what the PCOU said, Castro, that there was no kidnapping that happened?

01:38Everyone has papers regarding the arrest of PRRT?

01:43Well, it was really a kidnapping. You see the comments all around the world from experts.

01:50But if you talk to lawyers, they call it extraordinary rendition. But for a family member like me, that's kidnapping.

02:05That's forcibly taking my father to another country and illegally arresting him. So that's clearly kidnapping.

02:20Ma'am, will PRRT apply for interim release?

02:26That's something that I cannot comment on because it's a legal strategy.

02:33So I would leave that to the lawyers if the lawyers would like to talk to the media.

02:41But I will not comment on legal strategy.

02:45I would also add that because I told him a lot of people are crying, they are depressed, hurt, stressed about what happened and what is happening right now and what is happening in the country.

03:02And then he said, say to them, relax, everything has a limit.

03:12Yes.

03:13Remember, you're doing this from, I cannot take notes, I cannot take a boyfriend and then this.

03:24Say to them, relax, everything has a limit. There will be a day of reckoning for all.

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