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00:00I am Rodrigo Rua Duterte.
00:10Vice President Sara Duterte was convicted of warrantless arrest
00:14by former President Rodrigo Duterte on March 11.
00:18She said it during the Senate hearing,
00:20which was called by Presidential Sister Senator Aimee Marcos.
00:24Officials who were present at the hearing were not surprised.
00:28The arrest was in accordance with the law.
00:31Watch Ian Cruz.
00:36This was patently an illegal arrest.
00:39Vice President Sara Duterte was convicted
00:42of online harassment during the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations hearing.
00:46There is no jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court in the Philippines
00:50because the withdrawal of the Philippines from the ICC was already effective in 2019.
00:55Since there was no warrant from the court in the Philippines,
00:58the arrest of former President Rodrigo Duterte
01:02on March 11 in Villamor Air Base was warrantless.
01:05Article 59 of the Rome Statute was not followed
01:09that the father should be brought to a competent court first after being arrested.
01:13But the Justice Department's gate,
01:15the arrest of the former President is legal and under process.
01:19The IHL is the domestic law that we followed
01:24in recognizing the warrant of arrest issued against Rodrigo Duterte.
01:32Which domestic law and process?
01:35Republic Act 9851, Your Honor.
01:37As mentioned previously.
01:39Yes, as mentioned previously, and within the provisions,
01:43allows us two options,
01:47either extradition or surrender.
01:50We chose the executive mode, which is surrender.
01:53The chairperson of the committee and the brother of the President, Senator Amy Marcos,
01:57showed a video about the arrest.
02:01We accused Rodrigo Roa Duterte of extradition,
02:04as if he does not have his own country,
02:07as if we can no longer judge our own home.
02:12The Senator also showed the statements of President Bongbong Marcos
02:16saying that the Philippines does not help the ICC.
02:20Why is the SOJ now saying that we are nevertheless,
02:24somehow, in some miraculous way,
02:27under the rubric of the international humanitarian law,
02:33still under its jurisdiction?
02:36Your Honor, it is not the Philippines that is under the jurisdiction.
02:40It is the individuals who are charged by the ICC,
02:43which is under the jurisdiction.
02:45There is a distinction.
02:46Our views evolved during times, at times,
02:50and I don't know if it still has the same view up to today,
02:55because we are talking about a clip which was done one and a half years ago.
03:00Our minds can change, ma'am.
03:02It also came out in the hearing that it was not a red notice,
03:05but a defusion request sent by Interpol to the Philippines
03:09and accepted by the Philippine Center on Transnational Crime.
03:13It included the request to arrest Duterte.
03:16The request was sent after a prior consultation with the government of the Philippines
03:21that agreed to comply with the International Warrant of Arrest.
03:24It is based on the Warrant of Arrest from the ICC.
03:27My defusion, in Article 97 of the Rules on Processing of Data,
03:33is a standardized request to arrest, detain, or restrict movement of accused.
03:41But it has not been verified, it has not been investigated,
03:47and it has not been placed as an official.
03:50There is no task force, there is no compliance review.
03:53But that does not mean that it has no value.
03:56National Security Advisor Eduardo Año also denied that he was part of the core group that planned the arrest.
04:03My role was limited to the mandate of my office
04:08to assess that the situation does not escalate into a national security concern.
04:13The implementation of the ICC Warrant is beyond my mandate and I had no part in it.
04:19The Department of National Defense and the Armed Forces of the Philippines
04:23has no law enforcement mandate.
04:26Our sole mandate is to give support to the Philippine National Police when it is asked for.
04:33There was no planning.
04:35What is the effort of the group if there is no planning?
04:39I think that I have two, including two protective privileges already ma'am.
04:46The ICC Warrant was also questioned on how CIB Chief,
04:50Police Major General Nicolás Torre III, implemented the arrest warrant of the ICC.
04:55Senator Chingo Estrada said,
04:57they did not return to his experience when they were imprisoned by his father,
05:01former President Joseph Estrada.
05:03The police said,
05:04you will also be arrested if you do not join us.
05:07It was like a flashback to what the police did to us that day.
05:12And what you said,
05:13I will pull that, I will pull that.
05:15I made good of it sir.
05:17I said sir, I will pull that and I went back to him in the middle of the day.
05:20Handcuff him.
05:21Estrada was asked why the visa that the father was allowed to see at Villamor Air Base was prohibited.
05:27What the CRRD said,
05:30let my son in.
05:32He is a lawyer.
05:34When we were imprisoned,
05:36the immediate members of the family can visit us for 24 hours.
05:42I have told the President that they can visit him at his detention facility
05:47because at this time, the order of the day is to load him into a plane.
05:53So that's what we endeavored to do and that's what happens.
05:57According to the Vice President,
05:59politics is the motive behind the arrest of her father.
06:02They did it to demolish political opponents.
06:11This is all about politics.
06:14The administration is using government resources, the ICC,
06:18to demolish the opposition.
06:20Senator Bong Go said that he is close to the former President.
06:24Even though we respect this hearing,
06:27I am also saying to those who hurt me that it is too late.
06:33I have no problem with hearing every day.
06:37But the question is, will you bring my father back?
06:42Malacanang, who is not in favor of the law,
06:45was arrested and turned over to the former President in the ICC.
06:49According to Republic Act 9851,
06:52the Philippine Act on Crimes Against International Humanitarian Law,
06:56Genocide and Other Crimes Against Humanity.
06:59It is stated there that we can submit,
07:04let's repeat this,
07:06in Section 17, to extradite or to surrender to the International Court.
07:16Even Justice Carpio explained this,
07:21that we can surrender anyone to the International Court.
07:30Malacanang was also answered by Senator Marcos,
07:33who questioned the government's submission to a Filipino in the Philippines.
07:39Since when did the Philippines become a province of the Hague?
07:42We did not want to become a province of anything,
07:46because we are an independent country.
07:49We did not want to become a province of Fujian, China.
07:55We never thought that we would become a province of any country.
07:59We are just enforcing the law.
08:03The video that was released in the Senate hearing.
08:06The video that has sound effects so that it will be dramatic.
08:10The video was not cut or spliced.
08:14It also showed how the police were harassed while arresting them.
08:24It is not said that the presidential sister's statements are bad,
08:28but it should be balanced.
08:32Our officials are not able to speak,
08:36and Senator Aimee's stories are overshadowed.
08:42I just hope that there will be a balance.
08:44For GMA Integrated News, I'm Ian Cruz.
08:47Your Saksi.
09:01For GMA Integrated News, I'm Ian Cruz.