MANILA - A Philippines lawyer who filed a complaint at the International Criminal Court accusing President Rodrigo Duterte of murder in a bloody anti-drugs crackdown said on Tuesday he will no longer pursue the case.
"I fervently request that it be expunged or erased from the record, and that it should not be used in any way in the ongoing preliminary examination," Sabio said in a 28-page letter addressed to ICC Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda. In his letter, Sabio said the ICC case had been used by opposition politicians as a"tool for propaganda" and should therefore be"thrashed and set aside".
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