The International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecution removes one incident from its trial brief in the case against former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte. Multiple outlets report that the change follows a directive from the ICC’s Trial Chamber.
Coverage focuses on a specific drug-related killing. One report says references to “Incident 57” are removed from the trial brief and that redacted information replaces those references in the publicly released document to retain internal cross-references, with the replacement material blacked out due to confidentiality. Another outlet reports prosecutors dropped the killing after judges rule it falls outside the time frame of the charge.
Overall, the sources broadly agree on what happened—one incident is taken out of the prosecution’s trial materials—and link it to a judge-ordered instruction. Differences lie in how they describe the reason and process details, including whether the emphasis is on time-frame issues versus administrative steps in the publicly released filings.
