A Facebook reel is claiming that the International Criminal Court has already granted the petition of former president Rodrigo Duterte for interim release to an undisclosed country. This is not true.
The video published on June 14 had the following text superimposed throughout its short 51-second run:
“DIGONG LALAYA NA NGAYONG ARAW (Duterte will go free today)”
Other than claiming that the request had already been granted, the video’s narrator added that the mere fact the request was publicized by British lawyer Nicholas Kaufmann – Duterte’s lead counsel – was evidence of the petition’s approval.
As of June 17, there has been no decision on the appeal filed with the ICC according to the tribunal’s website. In the petition filed on June 12, Kaufman made known that a certain government, whose identity is redacted in the document, had expressed its “advance and principled agreement” to receive Duterte.
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