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'This is not the first time the International Career Support Association (ICSA) has brought these baseless claims before the United Nations. None of its previous actions have borne any fruit,' the DFA says
MANILA, Philippines — The Philippines’ Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) anticipates that the United Nations Human Rights Council (UN HRC) will not act on the statement of support submitted by a Japanese nongovernmental organization claiming the supposed “arbitrary detention” of former president Rodrigo Duterte.
Duterte, who was Philippine president from 2016 to 2022, is currently detained in the Netherlands and is awaiting trial before the International Criminal Court (ICC) for crimes against humanity charges related to his bloody drug war. Arrested in March 2025, Duterte is the first former Philippine head of state to face ICC trial.
