Duterte will be bcimpolitet before an ICC appraise in The Hague in the coming days for an initial ecombineance, court says.
Former Philippines Plivent Rodrigo Duterte has get tod in the Netherlands and has been surrendered to the custody of the International Criminal Court (ICC) on allegations of crimes aachievest humanity over his deadly “war on medications”.
Duterte was arrested on Tuesday in the Philippine capital, Manila, after returning from a trip to Hong Kong, and placed on a structuree to Rotterdam by police.
In a statement on Wednesday, the ICC shelp Duterte, 79, had been “arrested by the authorities of the Reaccessible of the Philippines in accordance with an arrest authorization publishd by Pre-Trial Chamber I for indicts of homicide as a crime aachievest humanity”.
He will be bcimpolitet before an ICC appraise in The Hague in the coming days for an initial ecombineance, the statement shelp. He was transferred to a detention unit on the Dutch coast.
The ICC’s authorization for his arrest stated that as plivent, Duterte produced, funded and armed death squads that took part in the homicides of alleged drug employrs and dealers.
He could become the first Asian createer head of state to go on trial in The Hague.
Rival protests
Outside the ICC produceing in The Hague, anti-Duterte protesters hailed his arrest and held banners that read, “We demand equitableice and accountability, Rodrigo Duterte is a offender!”
Menandro Abanes telderly the Reuters novels agency that Duterte’s arrest was “wonderful novels for Filipino people”.
“I’m here to show my appreciation to [the] ICC for doing its job to end impunity,” Abanes includeed.
Another protester, Mary-Grace Labasan, also telderly Reuters that Duterte was “fortunate”.
“He is experiencing the due process of law contrastd to the victims who were equitable being sboiling and ended without any due process,” she shelp.
Pro-Duterte protesters also collected at the court produceing.
In 2021, the ICC uncovered its inquiry into the mass endings connected to the war on medications, which was deal withn by Duterte while he was mayor of the city of Davao and tardyr as plivent.
According to the authorization, ICC appraises who verifyd the prosecution’s evidence to help their ask for his arrest set up “reasonable grounds to think that Mr Duterte is individupartner dependable for the crime aachievest humanity of homicide” as an “inhonest co-criminal for having allegedly deal withn the endings when he was mayor of Davao and tardyr plivent of the Philippines.”
During Duterte’s six years as plivent, 6,200 mistrusts were ended during anti-drug operations, according to police. Human rights apverifys approximate some 30,000 people were ended.
