{"id":77139,"date":"2026-04-23T21:07:35","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T12:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/apr\/23\/philippines-ex-president-rodrigo-duterte-trial-charges-crimes-against-humanity"},"modified":"2026-04-23T21:07:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T12:07:35","slug":"philippines-ex-president-rodrigo-duterte-to-face-trial-for-crimes-against-humanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=77139","title":{"rendered":"Philippines\u2019 ex-president Rodrigo Duterte to face trial for crimes against humanity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ICC judges say there are substantial grounds to believe Duterte guided anti-drugs crackdown that killed thousands<\/p>\n<p>The former president of the Philippines, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/rodrigo-duterte\">Rodrigo Duterte<\/a>, will face trial at the international criminal court (ICC) after judges unanimously confirmed charges of crimes against humanity over his \u201cwar on drugs\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Pre-trial judges concluded on Thursday that there were substantial grounds to believe Duterte was responsible for the crimes against humanity of murder and attempted murder in relation to anti-drugs crackdowns that led to the killing of thousands of people.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/apr\/23\/philippines-ex-president-rodrigo-duterte-trial-charges-crimes-against-humanity\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ICC judges say there are substantial grounds to believe Duterte guided anti-drugs crackdown that killed thousandsThe former president of the Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte, will face trial at the international criminal court (ICC) after judges unanimousl&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":860,"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-77139","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\/77139","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\/860"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77139"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77140,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77139\/revisions\/77140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}