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Motoc is the presiding choose of the ICC pre-trial chamber dealing with Duterte’s case; her identify and signature will be seen in a courtroom choice dated January 7, 2026
Declare: Iulia Motoc, presiding choose of the Worldwide Felony Court docket (ICC) Pre-Trial Chamber I dealing with the case of former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte, is lifeless.
Score: FALSE
Why we fact-checked this: The Fb reel bearing the declare has already obtained 565,000 views, 8,200 reactions, 1,500 shares, and 1,100 feedback as of writing. It was posted on January 6, coinciding with the ICC’s rejection of the Duterte camp’s bid to entry communications involving medical consultants assessing his health to face trial.
The submit reveals a black and white picture of Motoc and Philippine Ombudsman Jesus Crispin Remulla. One other picture of Motoc reveals her mendacity on a hospital mattress, seemingly in vital situation.
The submit additionally reveals a screenshot of a YouTube video thumbnail with textual content that reads, “ICC judges na humatol kay PRRD comatose? Tila nagkakatotoo ang sumpa ni PRRD! ICC choose pumanaw na?”
(ICC judges who dominated on [former president Rodrigo Duterte’s case] had been comatose? It appears that evidently Duterte’s curse is coming true! ICC choose has handed away?)
Many Fb customers within the remark part believed the declare. One wrote, “Malapit na tayo magdiwang, nakakarma n cla lhat (Our time of celebration is close to, karma is attending to them).”
The info: Motoc is alive. The choose’s identify and signature can nonetheless be seen in a latest choice dated January 7, rejecting the Duterte camp’s request for an knowledgeable report on his threat elements below the Rome Statute.
There are additionally no studies from varied credible information websites confirming that Motoc supposedly fell right into a coma and died. The Fb reel presents no proof to again up its declare.
Comparable false claims in regards to the loss of life of personalities concerned in Duterte’s case have beforehand been debunked, together with a loss of life hoax about Remulla. A number of days after the false declare started to flow into, the Ombudsman appeared dwell on DZRH Information radio present on January 3.
In April 2025, the then-justice secretary had admitted that the clearances supplied by his division had been essential within the March 2025 arrest of Duterte and his subsequent switch to the ICC in The Hague, Netherlands.
ICC choose: Motoc is among the many judges presiding over Duterte’s case on the ICC. A former choose on the European Court docket of Human Rights from 2013 to 2023, Motoc began her time period within the ICC on March 11, 2024, a 12 months earlier than Duterte’s arrest.
Motoc holds a regulation diploma from the College of Bucharest, a grasp’s diploma, and a Physician of Philosophy in Worldwide Legislation from the College Paul Cezanne, Aix-Marseille III. She additionally served as a professor of worldwide regulation and beforehand labored as a United Nations Particular Rapporteur for the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Motoc has been the topic of disinformation and trolling from Duterte supporters who spammed her social media account and appealed for the previous president’s launch.
Duterte’s arrest: Three years after his time period as Philippine president, Duterte was arrested on March 11, 2025. He’s at the moment dealing with prices of crimes in opposition to humanity for his administration’s struggle on medicine and extrajudicial killings.
Duterte stays in jail after the ICC rejected his interim launch enchantment in November 2025.
Earlier fact-checks: Rappler has beforehand fact-checked related claims about ICC judges and Duterte’s detention:
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Angelee Kaye Abelinde is a pupil journalist based mostly in Naga Metropolis, and an alumna of Rappler’s Aries Rufo Journalism Fellowship 2024.
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