FACT CHECK: ICC hasn’t declared Duterte ‘not guilty’ in drug war case

2026-03-12 - 05:34

Claim: The International Criminal Court (ICC) has issued a decision finding former president Rodrigo Duterte not guilty of crimes against humanity after finding no evidence against him. Rating: FALSE Why we fact-checked this: A Facebook post by “PrimeTime Celebs,” uploaded on March 3, claimed that there was a “new twist” in Duterte’s ICC case after his lawyer, Nicholas Kaufman, argued that the prosecution’s evidence against the former president was weak. The linked blog article, which supposedly told the whole story, carried the headline: “Malaking good news ito! ICC judge nahuli si Boying umamin walang ebidensya! PRRD makakalabas na sa ICC?” (Big good news! ICC judge caught [Ombudsman] Boying [Remulla] admitting there is no evidence! Will [former president Rodrigo Roa Duterte] be released from the ICC?)