THE Supreme Court (SC) en banc on Tuesday junked the plea of opposition senators to allow colleague Leila De Lima to appear before the high court and be heard on the petition they filed jointly for the nullification of the Philippine’s withdrawal from the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC).
De Lima is detained at the Philippine National Police Custodial Center in Camp Crame for alleged drug offenses she committed when she was justice secretary. The Muntinlupa Regional Trial Court has jurisdiction over her cases.
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