{"id":36899,"date":"2021-09-16T03:06:11","date_gmt":"2021-09-15T18:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/15\/icc-authorises-full-inquiry-rodrigo-duterte-war-on-drugs-philippines"},"modified":"2021-09-16T03:06:11","modified_gmt":"2021-09-15T18:06:11","slug":"icc-authorises-full-inquiry-into-rodrigo-dutertes-war-on-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=36899","title":{"rendered":"ICC authorises full inquiry into Rodrigo Duterte\u2019s \u2018war on drugs\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Reasonable basis\u2019 to believe crime against humanity committed in Philippines crackdown, say judges<\/p>\n<p>The international criminal court has authorised a full investigation into the Philippine president\u2019s \u201cwar on drugs\u201d, saying it resembled an illegitimate and systematic attack on civilians.<\/p>\n<p>Judges said there was a \u201creasonable basis\u201d to believe that the crime against humanity of murder had been committed in the crackdown, which has killed as many as <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\">tens of thousands of people<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/15\/icc-authorises-full-inquiry-rodrigo-duterte-war-on-drugs-philippines\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Reasonable basis\u2019 to believe crime against humanity committed in Philippines crackdown, say judgesThe international criminal court has authorised a full investigation into the Philippine president\u2019s \u201cwar on drugs\u201d, saying it resembled an illegitimate &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2574,"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":[41,927,734,86,55,204,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-international-criminal-court","category-international-criminal-justice","category-law","category-philippines","category-rodrigo-duterte","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36899","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\/2574"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36899"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36941,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36899\/revisions\/36941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}