RT Claudio Francavilla
🇵🇭 BREAKING: #ICC rejects #Philippines' appeal, confirms @IntlCrimCourt jurisdiction for "drug war" crimes against humanity: https://www.cnnphilippines.com/news/2023/7/18/icc-to-continue-duterte-drug-war-probe.html
#Marcos government has the *obligation* to cooperate in the investigation
Will it?
And will EU push for it, incl. through #GSP+? https://t.co/Rma3ri96Vt

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ClaFrancavilla/status/1681229429731741697

@russellcku

Impressive!
Thx for the insight. I have to say that it impossible to keep up with the socio-political development of the whole world (I try, therefore my frequent boosts of news from the global south).

My impression was that Duterte/Marcos are really conservative, trump/bolsonaro-style politicians.

But apparently, Philippino society is also on a good way regarding minority rights. Or is Quezon city an exception?

#Philippines #Duterte #Marcos #Philippino #Filipinx #Pilipinas #LGBTQ #Filipino

"A military man is an absurd person, because he has to resort to weapons in order to convince another that his truth is the only one to be followed, and in this sense, if the future of our movement is military, he has no future."

Subcomandante Marcos

#Marcos #quote #quotes

Today in Labor History June 1, 1981: Two Filipino longshore labor organizers, Domingo & Viernes, were assassinated in Seattle, Washington on orders of U.S.-backed dictator Ferdinand Marcos. In 1986, as a result of ongoing protests, President Ronald Reagan told Marcos to “cut and cut cleanly.” That evening, Marcos and his wife Imelda fled to Hawaii aboard a U.S. air force plane, after 20 years of rule, with an entourage of 90 people (mostly servants), with 22 crates of cash valued at $717 million, 300 crates of jewelry of unknown value, $4 million worth of unset precious gems, $200,000 in gold bullion, $1 million in Philippine pesos and deposit slips for $124 million in banks in the Cayman Islands. Plus, countless crates of shoes. The Marcos hold the Guinness record for the largest ever theft from a government. Today, their son, Bong Bong Marcos, rules over the Philippines, with Sara Duterte as his vice-president, daughter of the brutal previous president, Rodrigo Duterte, who has been linked to the death-squad murders of over 1,400 alleged drug dealers and street children.

#LaborHistory #WorkingClass #union #seattle #philippines #filipino #DeathSquads #assassination #Marcos #Duterte #organizers #dictator

Today in Labor History December 6, 1984: Children picketed the Mendiola Bridge in Manila, Philippines, demanding the release of their parents, who were being held as political prisoners by the U.S.-supported Marcos regime. In 1987, soldiers opened fire on protesters on Mendiola Street, killing 13 and injuring hundreds. In 1970, the Battle of Mendiola Bridge occurred when troops opened fire on student protesters, killing 4.

#philippines #manila #massacre #Marcos #politicalprisoners #imperialism

Update: Maria Ressa got an extension to file her appeal until Nov 24 so 🤞🏾 and #HoldTheLine
RT @HNeumannMEP: If things go wrong, @mariaressa (Nobel Peace Laureate 2021) will be send to prison for more than eight years tomorrow - because of a baseless cyber libel case, initiated under #duterte to crush press freedom in the #Philippines. We still hope things are changing under #Marcos

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/HNeumannMEP/status/1584636258684280834

If things go wrong, @mariaressa (Nobel Peace Laureate 2021) will be send to prison for more than eight years tomorrow - because of a baseless cyber libel case, initiated under #duterte to crush press freedom in the #Philippines. We still hope things are changing under #Marcos

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/HNeumannMEP/status/1584600463114063872

.@mariaressa is facing decades of imprisonment for trumped up charges in the #Philippines.
The #Marcos government committed itself to press freedom. Now it can prove its sincerity - and drop all charges.

We are watching, and we told the country's President & Justice Minister so:

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/HNeumannMEP/status/1583355557658128384

RT @HNeumannMEP: .@mariaressa is facing decades of imprisonment for trumped up charges in the #Philippines.
The #Marcos government committed itself to press freedom. Now it can prove its sincerity - and drop all charges.

We are watching, and we told the country's President & Justice Minister so:

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/CHansenEU/status/1583356000240734208

Let‘s accept he won - and continue the fight for democracy free from lies and undue interference.

Thinking about all those who freed the #Philippines from dictatorship 1986 at #EDSA

#HoldTheLine #Marcos
RT @mariaressa: Good afternoon from Manila! "The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting." Milan Kundera PH election results https://ph.rappler.com/elections/2022/races/president-vice-president…

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/HNeumannMEP/status/1523870027962847233

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