FPRRD, biktima umano ng “extrajudicial rendition” o kidnapping ayon kay dating ES Salvador Medialdea
- Former president Rodrigo Duterte was allegedly a victim of “extrajudicial rendition,” or kidnapping according to his ICC trial lawyer, former executive secretary Salvador Medialdea
- This was the firm assertion of the former executive secretary in a manifestation expressed during the ICC pre-trial hearing
- He also said that the former president was transported to The Hague in a degrading fashion
- FPRRD, represented by his lawyer, ES Medialdea, recently made his first appearance in the initial hearing conducted by the International Criminal Court
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Former president Rodrigo Duterte was allegedly a victim of what former executive secretary, Salvador Medialdea, called an “extrajudicial rendition,” or in simple language, kidnapping.
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This was his firm assertion when he addressed the International Criminal Court during its pre-trial hearing.
He also lamented the way that FPRRD was transported to The Hague in the Netherlands, which he felt was “degrading” for “a former president of a sovereign country.”
“Two days ago, the world has witnessed the degrading fashion, in which, a former president of a sovereign country was bundled into a private aircraft and summarily transported to The Hague,” former executive secretary Salvador Medialdea, said when he addressed the court during its pre-trial hearing.
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The former executive secretary said that for him and other lawyers, this could be viewed as “extrajudicial rendition,” or kidnapping.
“To us lawyers this would be called an extrajudicial rendition, to the less legally inclined, it was a pure and simple kidnapping,” former ES Medialdea said.
He also decried how his client, former president Duterte, was denied all access to legal recourse in the country where he was a citizen, adding that for him, it was a “nature of political score settling.”
“My client was denied all access to the legal recourse in the country of his citizenship, and this in the nature of political score settling,” Medialdea said.
The former executive then pointed out that in order for such dastardly act to happen, two entities, whom he did not identify but only made references to, “struck an unlikely alliance.”
“Two troubled entities struck an unlikely alliance, an incumbent president who wish to neutralize and choke the legacy of my client and his daughter on the other hand, and a troubled legal institution subject to delegitimization and desperate for a prized catch in a legal show today, on the other hand,” Medialdea said.
He reiterated that FPRRD was “abducted” from his own country, pointing out that “ICC jets do not drop from thin air.”
“With this in mind, it is not surprising that my client was abducted from his country,” the former executive secretary said.
The former president is currently at The Hague to face charges on crimes against humanity at the International Criminal Court.
Former Pres. Rodrigo Duterte was the 16th President of the Republic of the Philippines. He left Malacañang on June 30. The newly inaugurated President of the Philippines is Bongbong Marcos who got 31 million votes in the May 2022 elections. The new Vice President of the Philippines is VP Sara Duterte, the daughter of the former president.
During the pre-trial hearing, Judge Iulia Antoanella Motoc of the International Criminal Court (ICC) set the next hearing of the case against former president Rodrigo Duterte on September 23, approximately 6 months from now. In a video shared by ANC Digital on socmed, Judge Motoc said that particular hearing will be about the “confirmation of charges.” Judge Motoc made it clear during the pre-trial that the recently-concluded hearing is primarily to introduce the parties to the case and to answer three questions. She also said that there will be no presentation or collection of evidence during pre-trial.
The ICC presiding judge also ordered the prosecution panel to disclose all evidence it had to former president Rodrigo Duterte. The ICC presiding judge in the said case also ordered the prosecution to immediately inform FPRRD of any evidences that could favor the accused. In a video shared by ANC Digital on social media, one can see the ICC holding its pre-trial on the case involving the former president. It can be recalled that FPRRD has been arrested on charges of crimes against humanity in relation to his bloody drug war.
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