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The discourses of 'bring him home,' 'kidnapping, 'the best president of the Philippines,' 'BBM corrupt,' were their only method of rallying the troops. No science, no evidence, no political analysis, no sober intellectual exchange.

After participating in the memorial rally for the extrajudicial victims of the Duterte drug war outside the Peace Palace in The Hague on September 23, friends suggested we go see the International Criminal Court. From the ICC, the detention unit at Scheveningen was just some walking distance.

Outside the ICC, lawyer Gilbert Andres, one of only six Filipino lawyers accredited by the ICC, was giving an interview to Filipino media. Andres is with the Center for International Law Philippines (CenterLaw), a nongovernment organization dedicated to human rights and the rule of law. CenterLaw is lawyering for the EJK [extrajudicial killings] victims before the ICC, together with Joel Ruiz Butuyan, who was also in town but was not in the vicinity at that particular time.

From the ICC, it takes a walk of some 20 minutes to reach the ICC Detention Center where prisoner Rodrigo Duterte has been held since March of this year. One is simply a tourist gazer of the prison’s huge gates.

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