Former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte was taken into police custody after he returned to Manila from abroad on Tuesday (March 11).
According to the Presidential Communications Office, Interpol in Manila received the official copy of the warrant of arrest from the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Tuesday morning.
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According to the Presidential Communications Office, Interpol in Manila received the official copy of the warrant of arrest from the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Tuesday morning.
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00:00Supporters of Philippines' Rodrigo Duterte rallied outside the airbase where the firebrand
00:08former leader is being held on Tuesday after he was arrested at the request of the International
00:14Criminal Court.
00:16Authorities scaled up security with dozens of police guarding the Villamor airbase where
00:20Duterte's supporters had gathered and chanted slogans.
00:28Duterte was served an Interpol arrest warrant on his arrival at Manila's main airport and
00:33was in custody, the office of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. said in a statement on Tuesday.
00:40The arrest follows years of Duterte taunting the International Criminal Court since he
00:44unilaterally withdrew the Philippines from the court's founding treaty in 2019 as it
00:50started looking into allegations of systematic extrajudicial killings on his watch.
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