Senator Imee Marcos filed a resolution urging the Executive branch to disclose all communications and directives related to its cooperation with the International Criminal Court on the arrest of former President Rodrigo Duterte.

Marcos filed proposed Senate Resolution No. 340 to mark one year since Duterte was arrested under an ICC order for alleged crimes against humanity.

“One year has passed since the Executive Department carried out the extraordinary rendition of FPRRD. Under settled constitutional doctrine, the unlawful deprivation of liberty constitutes a continuing violation that endures for as long as the restraint persists without valid legal and judicial basis,” the resolution read.

“Yet, to this day, the Government has failed to provide accountability or meaningful redress for the ongoing impairment of FPRRD’s constitutional and statutory rights,” it added.

According to Marcos, statements from several government officials have been inconsistent, which she said “raise serious concerns on [their] candor and integrity.”

“The Executive Department’s persistent lack of transparency, its grave violations of the Bill of Rights, and its circumvention of the Philippine judicial system now give rise to serious and imminent concerns that similar actions may again be undertaken against the political opponents of the administration and retired police officials—thereby threatening to normalize the erosion of constitutional safeguard and the rule of law,” she said.

On March 11, 2025, authorities arrested Duterte upon his arrival at Ninoy Aquino International Airport Terminal 3 from Hong Kong.

Later that evening, he left for The Hague in the Netherlands to face charges linked to alleged extrajudicial killings during his anti-drug campaign.

-Paraluman News