Former president Rodrigo Duterte’s lawyer Nicholas Kaufman says Duterte will apply for interim release and will separately file a challenge to the International Criminal Court’s jurisdiction.
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00:00Former President Rodrigo Duterte's lawyer, Nicholas Kaufman, says Duterte will apply
00:05for interim release and will separately file a challenge to the International Criminal
00:08Court's jurisdiction.
00:10An interim release requires that there is no risk of flight, no risk of obstructing
00:14the investigation, and no risk of recommitting the crimes he's accused of.
00:18The main issue with the ICC's jurisdiction is the Philippines' withdrawal as a member
00:22in 2019.
00:23ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan had secured favorable rulings that ICC has jurisdiction as long
00:29as the alleged crimes committed happened when a country was still an ICC member.
00:33The Philippines was a member from 2011 to 2019, which covers the Davao death squad killings
00:38up to the drug war killings in 2019.
00:41Killings beyond 2019 fall out of the scope.
00:43Meantime, American author Nicholas Kaufman, known for books 100 Fathoms Below and Chasing
00:48the Dragon, says he was bombarded with messages from Filipinos who mistook him for Duterte's
00:52lawyer.
00:53In a post, he says, quote,
00:55Our names aren't even spelled the same.
00:57He's Kaufman with one n.
00:58It's insane.
00:59In a separate post, he clarifies,
01:01People of the Philippines, I am not the ICC lawyer Nicholas Kaufman, who is representing
01:05President Duterte.
01:07Please stop messaging me.
01:08He says he received apologies from Filipinos, but also notes the flood has only gotten worse.