{"id":33104,"date":"2021-06-15T03:28:02","date_gmt":"2021-06-14T18:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/14\/icc-seeks-investigation-into-philippines-war-on-drugs-killings"},"modified":"2021-06-15T03:28:02","modified_gmt":"2021-06-14T18:28:02","slug":"icc-prosecutor-seeks-investigation-into-philippines-war-on-drugs-killings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=33104","title":{"rendered":"ICC prosecutor seeks investigation into Philippines \u2018war on drugs\u2019 killings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police are accused of unlawfully killing thousands of civilians between 2016 and 2019 during drug crackdown<\/p>\n<p>The international criminal court\u2019s chief prosecutor has sought authorisation to open an investigation into crimes against humanity during the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/philippines\">Philippines<\/a>\u2019 deadly \u201cwar on drugs\u201d, in one of her last acts before stepping down this week.<\/p>\n<p>Fatou Bensouda asked judges at the world\u2019s only permanent war crimes court to authorise an investigation into allegations that police unlawfully <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=web&amp;cd=&amp;cad=rja&amp;uact=8&amp;ved=2ahUKEwiHu_nn15fxAhUSJt8KHbdoBCUQFjAAegQIAhAD&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fworld%2F2020%2Fjun%2F04%2Fphilippines-police-may-have-killed-tens-of-thousands-with-near-impunity-in-drug-war-un&amp;usg=AOvVaw2KPCOEHBJuoJWzWTeh4BoD\">killed as many as tens of thousands of civilians<\/a> between 2016 and 2019.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/14\/icc-seeks-investigation-into-philippines-war-on-drugs-killings\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police are accused of unlawfully killing thousands of civilians between 2016 and 2019 during drug crackdownThe international criminal court\u2019s chief prosecutor has sought authorisation to open an investigation into crimes against humanity during the Phi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,927,734,55,204,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-international-criminal-court","category-international-criminal-justice","category-philippines","category-rodrigo-duterte","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33104"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33105,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33104\/revisions\/33105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}