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De Lima cries politics as behind rejection to join proceedings on ICC withdrawal

        Senator Leila De Lima said it is obvious that the denial of her request to participate in the oral arguments on the validity of the government's withdrawal from the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) has no legal basis.   "It is obvious that the denial of my request to argue on my own behalf, as petitioner before the Supreme Court, to question the validity of [President Rodrigo] Duterte's unilateral withdrawal from the International Criminal Court, has no basis in fact or in law. The denial is purely political," De Lima said in a statement on Wednesday.   The opposition senator questioned the furlough r...

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