Davao City 1st District Representative Paolo "Pulong" Duterte branded as "political theater" the International Criminal Court's (ICC) decision rejecting the interim release bid of his father, former President Rodrigo Duterte.
In a Facebook post after the ICC released its decision Friday evening, Duterte vowed to "fight this by the book" even as he criticized the ruling and those allegedly behind his father's detention in The Hague, Netherlands over charges of crimes against humanity.
"This decision is a gross and disgraceful miscarriage of justice. It is not law — it is a political theater," the younger Duterte said in a Facebook post.
"My father, an 80 year old man, who is no longer in power
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