What awaits Rodrigo Duterte in The Hague?

Former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte gestures as he attends a senate probe on the drug warfare throughout his administration, in Manila on October 28, 2024. FILE PHOTO/Agence France-Presse

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is anticipated to reach within the Netherlands on Wednesday to face against the law in opposition to humanity cost stemming from his crackdown on medication.

After touchdown, he can be taken to the Worldwide Legal Courtroom’s detention unit, the place he can be readied for an preliminary look earlier than the court docket’s judges.

Here’s what he can anticipate:

The jail

Situated in The Hague’s seaside suburb of Scheveningen, the ICC’s detention unit types a part of a Dutch jail and presently holds 5 different ICC prisoners being tried earlier than the court docket.

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It is usually the jail that used to detain these wished by the close by Worldwide Legal Tribunal for the previous Yugoslavia (ICTY) together with the likes of Slobodan Milosevic, Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic.

“In fulfilling its mandate, the ICC Registrar endeavors to make sure the psychological, bodily and religious welfare of the detained individuals inside an environment friendly system of detention, with consideration to their cultural variety and their improvement as people,” the ICC says on its web site.

Prisoners all have particular person cells geared up with computer systems, however no entry to the web, to permit them to work on their instances.

The cells even have a mattress, desk, cabinets, a cabinet, rest room, hand basin, tv and an intercom to talk to guards when the cell is locked.

They might additionally use an out of doors train space and participate in sports activities and recreation actions.

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Three meals a day are served, however there may be additionally a communal kitchen the place detainees can cook dinner with groceries supplied from a purchasing record “to ensure that them to regulate the meals supplied to them, in accordance with their style and cultural necessities”.

Detainees might obtain household or conjugal visits “a number of instances a 12 months” and if they’re declared destitute, the court docket foots the invoice for the visits “to the extent doable”.

Preliminary look

ICC guidelines say all detainees “shall seem earlier than the Pre-Trial Chamber, within the presence of the prosecutor, promptly upon arrival on the court docket”.

This listening to goals to confirm a suspect’s id and to tell the arrested particular person of the crimes she or he is accused of.

Prisoners are knowledgeable of their rights beneath the ICC’s founding treaty, the Rome Statute, together with the fitting to use for interim launch.

Pre-trial judges will then set a date on which it can maintain a affirmation of costs listening to.

Affirmation of costs

The Rome Statute says that inside an affordable period of time after an individual’s give up or detention, the Pre-Trial Chamber shall maintain a listening to to “verify the costs on which the prosecutor intends to hunt trial”.

At that listening to, the prosecutor should persuade judges that substantial grounds exist “to consider that the particular person dedicated the crime(s) charged” and that sufficient proof had been gathered to carry a trial.

The ICC’s judges might on the finish of the listening to both verify the costs and ship the accused to a trial chamber, or say extra proof is required from the prosecutor, modify the costs, or drop the costs altogether.

As soon as the costs have been confirmed, the court docket’s presidency places collectively a trial chamber to organize after which conduct a trial.