The International Criminal Court Trial Chamber III has rejected the request of the Prosecution for the keys taken from former president Rodrigo Duterte when he was arrested and brought to The Hague on March 12 last year, stating that access to them is “neither necessary nor proportionate.“
In its decision, the Chamber said that the Prosecution failed to state the relevance of the keys to the proceedings on the charge of crimes against humanity that Duterte is facing, noting that it did “not specify to what items the keys relate to, nor how such items may provide evidence that are necessary for the investigation.”